Why do we run reader feedback at RCPU? Well, for one thing, we love your contributions.
OK, so you can always make them on the
individual
blog posts
on the Web site, and we love when you do. But we love running
your thoughts in the e-mail version of the newsletter because...well, because
it's less work for your editor, who doesn't have to write as much. (Kidding,
of course...mostly. Partly. A little. OK, not really.)
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Posted by Lee Pender on May 22, 20080 comments
Let's try this again. Almost a year ago, we at RCPU
launched
a plea
for you, the reader, to tell us your thoughts on virtualization --
what you're doing with it, what its potential is, what its weaknesses might
be, whatever.
We got a few comments on the blog post itself -- which are always welcome and
nice to see -- but, to our memory, the number of e-mails that rolled into your
editor's inbox ended up being somewhere between zero and two. Of course, that
was in 2007, eons ago, before RCP the magazine's sister publication, Virtualization
Review, hit the stands for the first time.
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Posted by Lee Pender on May 21, 20080 comments
Do these vendors coordinate this stuff, or are they spying on each other or
something? In the same week, VMware, virtualization titan, and Citrix, virtualization
challenger, released competing news about competing desktop virt (seriously,
do we always have to call it virtualization?) products.
Here's
VMware's news
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Posted by Lee Pender on May 21, 20080 comments
What's a virtual desktop infrastructure without thin client devices?
HP
and
Wyse
this week both released new thin clients designed to fit right in with the virtual
desktop.
Posted by Lee Pender on May 21, 20080 comments
Yawn.
Here's
your obligatory Microsoft-Yahoo update for the week, in case you're still curious
about that whole scenario.
Posted by Lee Pender on May 20, 20080 comments
SharePoint -- or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, or even MOSS -- is a hit.
It's a
moneymaker
for Microsoft
and a collaborative boon for customers. And while it was already
a cash driver for partners, SharePoint just got a bit better for the channel.
Software Assurance subscribers can now take advantage of what Redmond is calling
SharePoint Deployment
Planning Services, a program that helps them deploy the popular SharePoint
enterprise portal. SharePoint Deployment Planning Services is a little like
a program that the Office team offers, apparently -- but, most importantly for
the channel, it'll be partners who will be taking care of the bulk of the SharePoint
assistance for customers.
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Posted by Lee Pender on May 20, 20080 comments
Microsoft, moving with the times and technology, has added three new competencies
to its partner program: Business Intelligence, Unified Communications Solutions
and Hosting Solutions. The details on all of them are available on the
Partner
Program Web site
.
Posted by Lee Pender on May 15, 20080 comments
It's 70 degrees and sunny outside here in suburban Boston. That means that
spring is here -- really, this time, we think -- and the snows of winter are
gone again until December. OK, November. Or possibly late October.
Anyway, with flowers popping and allergies in full boom, we're going to let
some of our reader e-mails blossom at RCPU. It's been a while since we've run
reader feedback, so, like the grass and buds emerging from the blanket of winter,
get ready for some e-mails that have waited a while to see the light of day.
(Well, one, anyway -- the others are actually pretty recent. But we're running
with a metaphor here.)
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Posted by Lee Pender on May 15, 20080 comments
RCPU had a visit this week with Interactive Intelligence, a vendor pretty much
in the unified communications space, over Brazilian cuisine (read: meat) here
in Framingham.
Interactive Intelligence has some useful stuff out, including an IP communications
software platform that combines a bunch of capabilities normally addressed with
separate boxes (think PBX, ACD, IVR, WFM and some other acronyms we're not totally
sure we understand) into one software-based platform running on a single server.
Two of the products based on that platform are now
integrated with Microsoft's Office Communications Server.
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Posted by Lee Pender on May 15, 20080 comments
With Microsoft-Yahoo fizzing, another mega-acquisition that's actually happening
is stealing the spotlight. HP is turning itself into (even more of) a services
giant by
snapping
up EDS
for $13.9 billion. Analysts and observers are setting the whole thing
up as a
big
HP challenge to IBM
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Posted by Lee Pender on May 14, 20080 comments