Microsoft had the largest share of the SMB portals and content management pie in terms of the dollar value of VARs' proposals to solution providers in the first half of the year, the value of deals closed during that period and the value of deals expected to close in the second half of 2008. But HP captured the highest Affinity Index score, which accumulates scores for 15 different factors, each weighed by importance by solution providers.

The following slides illustrate some results in the portals and content management category. ChannelWeb is providing further findings in other product categories throughout December.