As Redmond magazine columnist Mary Jo Foley explains, the idea is "integration as a service" on Azure. In fact, she does such a good job of explaining this concept that we'll just turn the whole thing over to her.
Posted by Lee Pender on November 04, 20100 comments
We've been wondering aloud here for a while just how significant the opportunities are for Microsoft partners to profit from Redmond's cloud efforts. Microsoft's recent cloud-heavy win in New York City -- accomplished directly, sans channel involvement -- had us pondering that issue again recently. But reader Al offers a thoughtful perspective as to why Microsoft had to go solo in Gotham and why partners can still succeed with Microsoft in the cloud:
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Posted by Lee Pender on November 04, 20100 comments
It's an e-commerce software company (remember those? Commerce One, anyone? Ariba?), not some massively expensive piece of Art or a guy named Art. We'd change our name to Art for $1 billion, though.
Posted by Lee Pender on November 03, 20101 comments
Boomi sort of sounds like something your editor's six-week-old son would do in his diaper, but whatever...
Posted by Lee Pender on November 03, 20100 comments
This is the way of the future, and not just for Microsoft Dynamics. Mark our words: Microsoft is moving toward rewarding larger partners and sloughing off smaller ones, starting with the policy that will soon be in place for Dynamics compensation.
We're not saying that this is all bad, just that it's reality. Check out how Jeff Edwards, director of Microsoft Dynamics Partner Strategy, explained some of the changes to RCPmag.com:
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Posted by Lee Pender on October 28, 20102 comments
The title of this entry pretty much says it all, apart from some details about the product, such as Outlook and some collaboration stuff being part of it.
Posted by Lee Pender on October 27, 20101 comments
The weird thing here is that IBM's stock is at a high, not a low...but whatever.
Posted by Lee Pender on October 27, 20100 comments
Microsoft reports earnings Thursday afternoon, and with big announcements like Windows Phone 7 and Office 365 still creating flotsam and jetsam in various parts of the pundisphere, this week is a quiet one on the Microsoft news front.
So, it'll be a quiet one here at RCPU, too, as we take this opportunity to focus on a few other projects -- not that we don't love and appreciate you, dear readers, because we do. Anyway, the news this week is that HP has released Windows 7 tablet PC.
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Posted by Lee Pender on October 27, 20102 comments