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VARBusiness: Big Blue Strikes Back With Next Generation of Notes/Domino

With a few weeks to reflect on Lotusphere,VARs and analysts are giving the Workplace / Notes strategy a thumbs-up..."Extendingserver-managed clients to Hannover next year simplifies deployment issues,but in 2007 it also gives [IBM] a chance to extend Notes more deeply intoa Linux as well as...

Tags: VARBusiness, IBM Lotus Notes, IBM Corp.

Blog posts 2006-02-21

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Will the last top developer out of Novell please turn off the lights?

Will the last top developer out of Novell please turn off the lights?Gee Novell Froze Over Hell and No Credit?It is time to start analyzing what is going correctly in our industry rather than focusing on the negative. Novell's impact on Hell - its freezing of the Microsoft Way -...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Novell Inc., Linux, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-05-07

Counter point to "Analysis: Can a Customer Be Too Small For Virtualization?"

Virtualization technology is just that, a technology. An organizations requirements and budget must be considered before a specific technology is selected. A technological choice that is perfect for the needs of one organization might just be the wrong choice for another. That being said, Small to Medium Businesses SMB...

Tags: virtual processing software, virtual machine software, virtualization, virtual storage software, virtual access software, clustering software

Blog posts 2007-04-25

What?! just froze over?

What?! just froze over?I'll bet they can't do itSorry Murph, you saying "I'll bet they can't do it" is not good enough.All along it was Linux that was the biggest threat to Solaris. You were evangelizing the enemy. Today its pretty evident, that open sourcing Solaris is negated. All the...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Linux, Servers, Homer, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Faulkner, Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-11-03

Social Web or Business Web: where is the money?

What do MySpace and Microsoft have in common? One has been anointed the “#1” player in the Social Web and the other has announced its intentions to be the “#1” player in the Business Web.MySpace has been honored by Hitwise as being in the “#1 position for all Internet sites,”...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Business-web, Social Web, Business, Business Web, Web

Blog posts 2006-07-11

Demand Generators

Will Value Added Resellers VARs embrace the Software-as-a-Service Saas movement or treat it as a disintermediating threat? According to VARBusiness' 2005 State of Software survey, VARs or solution providers are actually prepared to capitalize on SaaS. In fact, 45% of survey respondents claimed that they will sell software on a...

Tags: Saas, reseller, value-added reseller

Blog posts 2005-08-18

52% of application developers use .NET

A recent Evans Data study that tracks .NET usage shows a sharp increase in adoption. From spring 2003 to spring 2004, .NET development gained 6% among users. Today, 52% of those polled say they use .NET, up from 46% last year. What is more, 68% of those same respondents said...

Tags: Microsoft .NET

Blog posts 2004-07-14