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Selling Small Business: Database Report Contents

By CRN Staff

, CRN

January 08, 2003    9:36 AM ET


The CRN Test Center looks at four SMB desktop database products: Microsoft Access 2002, FileMaker Pro 6, the Adabas database engine of Sun Microsystems' StarOffice 6.0 and TheKompany.com's Rekall 1.1 For Windows.

The prices of LCD flat-panel displays continue to plummet, giving solution providers an opportunity to upgrade their small-business customers' monitors.

New, low-cost wireless access point products are opening the public hot-spot space to small businesses.

The ASCII Group's new reverse auction tool stands to help solution providers speed price comparisons.

Instant messaging is creeping into the workplace--and the IT channel. Avnet's Cathy Serie said IM helps the distributor keep in contact with its dispersed base of solution provider partners.

Databases are attracting more attention--and IT dollars--from small businesses, CRN research finds.

Don't box yourself into a corner by debating pricing with customers. Learn how to sell added value.

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