Recent Articles
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Microsoft Sets Sights on Oracle RDBMS
Over the years, Microsoft has steadily gained market share on Oracle in the relational database management system (RDBMS) space, with the possible exception of high-end, mission-critical applications. But with the arrival of a Microsoft SQL Server 2014 offering that can run both transactional processing and analytics applications in-memory, Microsoft clearly has its sights set on…
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Stratus Technologies Beefs Up Its Partner Program
Stratus Technologies launched a new global partner program designed to give channel partners greater flexibility and tools to meet the requirements of their business models. The program offers incentives, a range of certification and accreditation options, and margin opportunities to sell Stratus’ products for “always-on” availability across a variety of industry sectors, the company said.…
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Highlights of Tech Companies’ Latest Earnings Reports
Earnings reports A Slide in Apple’s iPad Sales Wall Street expressed concern that iPad sales in the last quarter fell 1 million units year-over-year. When CEO Tim Cook discussed Apple’s earnings, he said he wasn’t worried about those numbers and that sales were in line with the company’s expectations. Microsoft Still has Some Trouble With…
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Extreme Networks Intros Unified Channel Program
Following Extreme Network’s acquisition of Enterasys last year, the merger of the two organizations’ channel programs, had been a work in progress. Now, Extreme Networks is rolling out a revamped channel program that, not only combines much of the best of what both companies previously offered, but also adds a couple of new twists. At…
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IBM-Apple Alliance Provides Big Mobile Boost to Channel
From a channel perspective, mobile computing has always been a challenge because the acquiring of the devices and services is most often direct. But in the wake of the far-reaching mobile alliance this week between IBM and Apple, the mobile playing field for the channel just became a little more level. Under the terms of…
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HP Spurs Windows Server 2003 Migrations
To a provide a catalyst for channel partners looking to help customers migrate from Microsoft Windows Server 2003 to a more modern instance of Windows Server, Hewlett-Packard, in conjunction with Microsoft, announced a new channel program designed to help partners take advantage of an estimated $10 billion market opportunity. With support from Microsoft for Windows…
