Hot Topics FeedbackLast month, I posted 20 Great-Looking Solution Provider Websites, a slide show highlighting some of the most creative work on display in our business. Derive Technologies, one of the sites I mentioned, not only trumpeted their achievement on their website; but their design firm, Mitra Creative did as well. They deserved to. I also heard from Kristine Buyers, director of Marketing Communication at Dewpoint, who shared the news that the company has since launched a redesign of their site. My initial take on it is that they've definitely made the site even more professional-appearing, and have kept a bit of the cheerful yellow color from their logo, though I do miss the playfulness of the old look a bit. Two months ago, I blogged about the trouble at British Airways Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport outside London. I'm happy to say things are going better now, but not before we heard from a number of ChannelWeb members actually caught up in the Terminals' numerous opening-month problems, including one reader who notes: "This has actually happened on the same scale with every single major airport that has opened in the last 15 years or so, including Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Bangkok, Thailand. I think you guys should do an in depth piece on how solution providers could be used to help gauge the capacity requirements and anticipate the contengenices that invariably crop up with projects of this scale!" Some recommendations from the vendor community: In response to my post on the launch of Acrobat.com, Michele Wyman of Box.net emailed about her company's services, "a SaaS file system which offers robust online file storage and sharing tools, and also features a collaboration platform." There's a free offering, as well as subscription models for businesses. Are you and your customers embracing 'cloud computing' solutions? In addition, in repsonse to my post "Virtualization Eases Desktop Woes", Angela Jamison pinged me from Jumpbox, "an innovative provider of virtual appliances." JumpBoxes are: "A virtual appliance for an Open Source application that is focused on a single task (or single application) and is carefully crafted to capture the best practices for how the application should be implemented... The JumpBox Open Collection is full of JumpBoxes for the most powerful apps available.." Entry-level business pricing looks very reasonable. Posted by Joe Caponi at 10:40 AM, June 17, 2008 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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