Another brand survey? Yes -- but this one we've seen before. For the second
year (not the third, as the linked article suggests) in a row, Google has
topped
the list
of the world's biggest brand according to Millward Brown Optimor.
Back in the summer of 2006,
RCP
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Posted by Lee Pender on April 22, 20080 comments
Yesterday was
Patriots'
Day
, a uniquely Boston holiday that's meant to honor the first battle of
the American Revolution but mainly serves as a mini-spring break and as the
weekend of the Boston Marathon. (No, it has nothing to do with Tom Brady.) Oh,
and there's an 11 a.m. Sox game every Patriots' Day, too -- yesterday, they
completed a sweep of the Texas Rangers.
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Posted by Lee Pender on April 22, 20080 comments
Everybody's favorite partnership (open source folks, we see the steam coming
out of your ears) is hitting the road in a much more serious way -- specifically,
the road to China. (Yes, we know it's across the Pacific and there's no "road"
that goes there, but we've got a theme going here).
Novell and Microsoft are
ramping
up SuSE Linux sales
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Posted by Lee Pender on April 22, 20080 comments
Want to know more about it? Of course you do...but you'll just have to
click
the link
. (Hey, we have to pay the bills around here, too.)
Posted by Lee Pender on April 17, 20080 comments
A 20-year veteran of the company is the
new
head guy
for channel operations.
Posted by Lee Pender on April 17, 20080 comments
Could this be the first sign -- or one of the first signs -- of a possible
recession hitting the channel? The financial news from Avnet
is
not good
.
Posted by Lee Pender on April 17, 20080 comments
There's hype, and then there's movement. All of the articles -- some of them
here -- about SaaS being the next big thing, about how partners should prepare
for it, about whether Microsoft is ready for it...that's all, or at least mostly,
hype.
Ingram Micro's announcement this week that it will expand
its portfolio of hosted Microsoft applications and offer partners the opportunity
to resell private-label hosted applications...is movement.
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Posted by Lee Pender on April 17, 20080 comments
It's made by a company in India; it'll run (ahem) XP, and it'll
cost
about $425
. What's not to like, actually?
Posted by Lee Pender on April 16, 20080 comments
Another Windows executive and Vista co-conspirator has "
retired
,"
meaning another shakeup of executives is in order in Redmond.
Posted by Lee Pender on April 16, 20080 comments
"Who is gonna make it?
We'll find out
In the long run"
-- "The Long Run" by The Eagles, from 1979
(And, yes, you'll be humming that song all day now. You're welcome.)
Let's go ahead and call it a movement, or at least a cause. What started as
an online
petition demanding that Microsoft offer XP indefinitely and not scrap it
with OEMs for Vista in June has become something greater, something that has
leaked out of the trade press and nerd circles and into
the real world.
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Posted by Lee Pender on April 16, 20085 comments