Up Is The New UpWe've just surveyed over 100 solution providers on their take on business, and guess what? They've got no time for gloom. In fact, many are sticking with their growth plans for 2009. And they've helped us pull together our latest VARBusiness cover story: 7 Ways To Grow In A Down Economy: "Part of the reason for all that potential growth might actually be those corporate cutbacks, VARs said. Several VARs said their business was thriving because they could offer their customers ways to do more with less. Such productivity-enhancing solutions are quickly becoming this season's best-sellers." Also in the latest issue, Chad Berndtson looks at opportunities arising out of the just-signed economic stimulus package: "The savviest VARs are already spotting opportunities, from total modernization upgrades to the General Services Administration, Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Defense, to green infrastructure initiatives and broadband expansion." Meanwhile, the economy may be turn out just fine on it's own. Ed Moltzen is scanning the landscape and already sees Light at the End of the Tunnel: "Even as market indicators remained scary, and have been since the banking meltdown last September, some observers out there are giving reasons to keep a stiff upper lip... Michael S. Malone has written an interesting item on what he sees as light at the end of the tunnel of economic malaise, and that light is coming from Silicon Valley."
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