Labor Day LinksNo matter what you'll be doing, enjoy the three day weekend! Some links to take away with you: VARBusines reports on the top technologies where small businesses are looking for VAR's help. According to our CMP Channel Quarterly Business Spending Survey: "The respondents highlighted five technology categories where they have sought or received help the most from solution providers: Network security, archiving and backup, client and desktop security, network infrastructure, and accounting and supply-chain applications." The biggest story of the week? Kevin McLaughlin's Partners to Microsoft: Don't Make Us Licensing Police: "Several sources told CMP Channel that Microsoft sometimes expects partners to act as foot soldiers in its ongoing campaign against so-called 'unintentional' software piracy by reporting organizations that aren't in compliance, which is threatening their role as trusted advisors to their clients." Our forums have been really hopping lately. In particular, see the threads on Fakes: Can You Tell The Difference?; Dell's Chief Challenges; and VARs Ripping And Replacing Vista For XP At Breakneck Pace. And don't miss this quote from bhancockcpr at the thread Dell is Stealing Customers From Partners: "Having just witnessed a Dell representative calling a customer and telling them (We put them on speaker phone) they should be buying direct because they could beat the partners' price... I was appalled." Next week is the last week to apply for Tech Innovators! If your organization has discovered a game-changing channel product (or if your organization sells a game-changing channel product) let us know, and you could be collecting a major award in October. GovernmentVAR is hosting State and Local Roadshows in Sacramento, Austin and Chicago this fall. If you're looking for insight into these markets, this is the place to start. In other news, Barry Ritholtz has a comparison of the recent market volatility with what real bear markets look like. It's not reassuring. The folks at Adaptive Path write that you can learn alot about attracting customers from "The Pick-Up Artist". And David Ewalt pens a homage to an expansion pack that's strangely moving. Posted by Joe Caponi at 02:44 PM, August 31, 2007 This is a public forum. United Business Media and its affiliates are not responsible for and do not control what is posted herein. United Business Media makes no warranties or guarantees concerning any advice dispensed by its staff members or readers. Community standards in this comment area do not permit hate language, excessive profanity, or other patently offensive language. Please be aware that all information posted to this comment area becomes the property of United Business Media LLC and may be edited and republished in print or electronic format as outlined in United Business Media's Terms of Service. Important Note: This comment area is NOT intended for commercial messages or solicitations of business. |
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