The falling prices of color printers present a rainbow of upgrade opportunities for solution providers. CRN’s Test Center looks at four products geared toward small businesses.
Like color printers, flat-panel displays promise robust upgrade sales for solution providers.
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Selling SMB: Colorful Opportunities Contents

By CRN Staff
, CRN

October 09, 2002    7:48 PM ET


The falling prices of color printers present a rainbow of upgrade opportunities for solution providers. CRN’s Test Center looks at four products geared toward small businesses.

Like color printers, flat-panel displays promise robust upgrade sales for solution providers.

The enterprise vendor looks to expand its customer base to include smaller businesses via new products.
With a “lite” version of Websphere and new BizPak bundle, IBM aims to dilute Microsoft’s SMB strength.

Looking to offer small-business customers some safe havens for their data? Check out these five products.

Hostopia targets small-business service providers with a hosted “virtual store” application for retailers.

Content-filtering software vendor Elron Software counts SMBs among its key customers as it drives forward with a transition to more channel-driven sales.

This issue: Offerings from ScanSoft, Linksys, Samsung, SMC Networks, Aspect Computer and RadVision.

Peripherals offer a good conduit for moving product and selling services, CRN research finds.

 Published for the Week Of October 14, 2002


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