Channel
monster CDW
is back with more numbers for your consumption. This time, the
Large Account Reseller is looking at adoption of Vista and Office 2007. The
crux of the findings is that Vista -- which almost 30 percent of "IT decision
makers" are either using or "evaluating" -- seems to be a good
springboard to adoption of Office 2007. While not particularly surprising, that
little nugget still seems interesting. From the
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Posted by Lee Pender on September 07, 20070 comments
There was a time, of course, when Microsoft couldn't do without vendors like
Symantec (and maybe it still can't -- but that remains to be seen). Big security
players were the cops who kept Windows from looking like some dark, dangerous,
back-alley operating system and held most -- if definitely not all -- of the
attacks that threatened various versions of the OS at bay. Windows needed security,
and Symantec and friends happily -- and profitably -- provided it. And they
still do.
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Posted by Lee Pender on September 07, 20071 comments
Maybe you're not entirely sure what Software as a Service is. Sure, you read
a lot about it (even here), and maybe you hear people talking about it. You
see that Salesforce.com seems to be cleaning up revenue-wise with it. Perhaps
your customers have even puzzled you by inquiring as to what your SaaS option
is. So you're left trying to figure out what SaaS really is, much less what
your strategy for it should be.
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Posted by Lee Pender on September 06, 20070 comments
OK, so it's not the greatest play on words of all time, but we were trying
to go for something other than a "turns on Silverlight" phrase (which
Keith Ward already stole), which kind of makes us think of a lousy old Neil
Diamond song.
Anyway, Microsoft
released
Silverlight
this week.
Posted by Lee Pender on September 06, 20070 comments
And that's
a
big "no"
from a big standards organization for Microsoft's Office
Open XML document format.
Posted by Lee Pender on September 04, 20070 comments
With apologies to our friends outside the U.S. who were probably working yesterday,
we're still recovering from a long holiday weekend here and all the work we
missed on Monday. So, get ready for some quick hits today. (Yes, that means
you get a break from RCPU's usual ponderings, but we'll be back to ponder tomorrow.)
Also, we'll have a Friday edition this week, so be on the lookout for that.
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Posted by Lee Pender on September 04, 20070 comments
If
this
stuff
works, it could spell doom for the makers of Skittles and Mountain
Dew.
Posted by Lee Pender on August 29, 20070 comments
We hear the phrase all the time -- "SMB," or small and medium-sized
businesses. Partners, vendors and analysts all say that the new pot of revenue
gold lies at the end of the SMB rainbow, now that bigger companies have just
about all the technology they can stand, thank you very much. But SMB is not
a homogenous category of enterprises. Indeed, some Bs are considerably more
M than S, and vice versa.
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Posted by Lee Pender on August 29, 20070 comments