High Tech, The Candidates, And The Public SectorIn today's CRN, Robert Faletra asks the question "Which Presidential Candidate Would Be Best For High Tech?", but eventually concludes that none of the big three has yet addressed our most important technology challenge: "The biggest issue we face as an industry is education and graduating more engineers, and I haven't heard any of the candidates give me an answer as to what they would do about that." Meanwhile, over on Small Business Resource, Gayle Kesten compiles a few guides (including ours) to the candidates's positions on high-tech issues. Among small business managers, the most critical issue she's seeing is dealing with health care costs. Of course, the government isn't only a source of policy opportunities/challenges. It's also a big IT buyer, and Robert DeMarzo says it's a great hedge against a downturn in the business sector, if you know how to play it: "The VARs who stuck with it and spent time securing contracts or serving as subs to the large prime contractors built a steady, profitable business that, in many cases, is growing faster than their commercial side while guaranteeing a predictable rate of return."
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