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Seven Things Partners Want to Hear About at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference
Seven Things Partners Want to Hear About at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference Microsoft partners are clamoring for clarity around the vendor’s software-as-a-service play. Last year’s excitement at the introduction of Business Productivity Online Suite, in particular, has been dampened by widespread dissatisfaction with the partner business model. Partners complain that margins on BPOS resale…
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Sony to Offer $500 Vaio W Series Mini-Notebook
Sony is getting into the netbook mini-notebook game with the release of its new Vaio W series line, squarely aimed at consumers and carrying a hefty price tag of about $500 in the United States – one that puts the netbook in competition against some of the less expensive traditional laptop computers. Sony is only…
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Gartner: Still No Economic Recovery for IT Spending, Sales
Gartner is now forecasting a 6 percent decline in IT spending for 2009, representing a more significant decline than the market research firm’s previous forecast of a 3.8 percent decline. Gartner says that all four major segments of IT spending will experience declines—hardware, software, IT services and telecommunications. "While the global economic downturn shows signs…
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Medium-sized and Large Business Looking to Invest in IT Again
While large business and medium-sized business are showing more confidence with plans to invest in IT products and IT staff again, small business IT investment may have slipped. That’s according to the most recent survey of IT professionals and the CDW IT Monitor. In the government sector, federal government IT decision makers are showing even…
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IBM, Ingram Micro Bring Simplified Technology to Small Business
IBM authorized resellers and channel partners can now get IBM’s Smart Cube product – billed as an IT department in a box for small business and midsized business — through distributor Ingram Micro, the companies have announced. The combined hardware, software and technical support solution that features an IBM server together with applications such as…
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Watching Old Friends Become Enemies
In a global virtual press and analyst roundtable, Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior said blade servers being developed by Cisco for its Unified Computing Systems are not intended to compete with existing servers offered by IBM, Dell, Hewlett-Packard or Sun Microsystems. Rather, she says, the UCS strategy is to put the assets in place to help…
