Category: Application Infrastructure

Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003
Price: $3,999 per server, per device/user
Forget all the bellyaching about the lateness of Windows Vista. Ask any Microsoft business partner to single out a product that's firing on all cylinders today and you'll hear about this one repeatedly: SharePoint. This piece of software infrastructure is enabling midmarket companies to drive end-to-end collaboration inside and outside their organizations as adeptly as today's largest enterprises. With a complete set of management and deployment tools, solution providers can set up customized SharePoint sites where users--with access by role--can share documents, applications and other information securely with single sign-on. SharePoint's integration with Office on the front end provides a familiar entry point for users. Now, rather than selling point products, VARs can use SharePoint as the anchor for building more sophisticated solutions.

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IBM DB2 UDB Express C
Price: Free
This downloadable version of IBM's midmarket-focused database is designed to reduce TCO and features self-tuning and self-configuring autonomic capabilities for ease of manageability on Linux or Windows. Key beneficiaries are ISVs, who can use the database to build applications with the same core data-server features, development interfaces and system limits as DB2 Express--but in a smaller package. IBM Business Partners may also register for free redistribution of the product with their own solutions or applications.

Novell SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
Price: $50 per desktop for 1 year
Solution providers are always looking for alternatives, especially when it comes to serving midmarket clients that crave lower costs and more simplicity. Novell's desktop version of Linux can be installed on PCs that already run Windows and comes loaded with an office-type suite of applications and tools. The open-source nature of the product makes for an easy subscription-based pricing model.

Oracle Application Server 10g Standard Edition One
Price: $149 per user
Aimed squarely at small-to-midsize businesses, this middleware product aims to lower the cost and complexity of developing, deploying and managing Web-based applications and Web sites. The J2EE-based app server comes with one-click installation for Windows and Linux, a visual development environment and an out-of-the-box employee portal. The product is meant to be scalable and is based on the same architecture as its more robust versions, to which partners can move customers as needed.

Progress Software OpenEdge 10
Price: Varies
The latest iteration of this quintessential midmarket vendor's platform fully embraces the services-oriented architecture model, simplifying development for ISVs and solution providers so they can write software solutions quickly and get them to market at an affordable price for midmarket customers. Many of Progress' partners successfully use the platform to get into such niches as casino and timber-industry software.