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Big Bet on SOA

Accenture plans to pump $450 million into service-oriented architecture (SOA) technologies over the next three years. I know: You’re not Accenture. And your company doesn’t have $450 million to invest in anything. But it’s still important to note SOA’s growing influence in the market place with integrators and software companies.

Microsoft Gives In To Linux

Microsoft Gives In To Linux

Microsoft isn’t quite ready to develop applications for Linux, but the company is finally willing to co-exist with the open source operating system. The software giant is partnering with XenSource to bridge “Windows and Linux with virtualization interoperability.” Translation: Microsoft is finally willing to admit that customers want to run Windows and Linux side-by-side on […]

Get Paid to Hunt Pirates

Get Paid to Hunt Pirates

Johnny Depp isn’t the only pirate on the run this summer. Microsoft has filed 26 lawsuits accusing U.S. companies of selling pirated software, the latest move in its ramped-up efforts to boost sales by cracking down on illegal copies, according to the Associated Press. While I’m not familiar with these specific cases, fighting piracy can […]

Did We Just Hit A Tech Bump?

Did We Just Hit A Tech Bump?

I’m not hitting the panic button. And I’m not saying we’re heading for another tech slowdown. But be sure to watch tech earnings over the next few weeks. Already, we’ve seen warnings from SAP, AMD, EMC and numerous smaller companies. Many analysts insist this isn’t a tech-wide slowdown. After all, SAP’s bump comes only a […]

Follow This VAR’s Lead

Follow This VAR’s Lead

You know the drill: You need to offer managed services and software services to bolster your margins. And it wouldn’t hurt to have some vertical market expertise as well. How can you get started? Check out Avatar Systems Inc. The Frisco, Texas-based solutions provider focuses on the energy vertical and has just signed a VAR […]

Microsoft Preps Hosted CRM

Microsoft Preps Hosted CRM

If you haven’t embraced managed services yet, Microsoft may give you the push you need. At its partner conference today in Boston, the software giant vowed to introduce a hosted CRM software suite, dubbed Dynamics CRM Live, in North America within the next year. Although Microsoft has repeatedly missed recent product deadlines, the company’s commitment […]

Citrix Seeks SMB Partners

Citrix Seeks SMB Partners

Citrix Systems has signed up 3,000 resellers to support its SMB push, and is seeking even more partners across North America, EMEA, Latin America and the Caribbean. I have to tip my hat to the company: When Microsoft announced plans to introduce multi-user Windows NT software a decade ago, I figured Citrix was toast. Boy […]

Cisco: Software King?

Cisco: Software King?

Way back in January 2001, I predicted that Cisco, Lucent and Nortel would greatly increase their focus on software development and software licensing. Those efforts have been hit and miss. But now comes word that Cisco may charge for IOS and related software, according to Network World. Throw in a few more acquisitions, and Cisco […]

The Next VMware?

The Next VMware?

It’s easy to understand why Bob Wiederhold sounds confident. The CEO of Transitive Corp. is promoting software that allows Linux-based x86 servers to run Sun/SPARC applications on the fly. Transitive’s partners include Intel and Apple Computer. Wiederhold uses the term “virtualization” to describe Transitive’s software, but he’s quick to define how Transitive differs from EMC’s […]

Getting Certified for MySQL?

Getting Certified for MySQL?

Certification pros, much like solutions providers, continue to race up the open source software stack. The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), for instance, is introducing MySQL 5.0 certification exams at this week’s C3 Expo in New York. While I don’t know enough about LPI to endorse the exams, it’s logical to progress from Linux to MySQL […]

Live From Microsoft TechEd

Live From Microsoft TechEd

All eyes are on Boston as Microsoft hosts TechEd June 11-16. Some pundits insist the software giant is losing its clout. But the TechEd crowd–more than 12,000 strong–suggests otherwise. If you can’t make the trip to Beantown, Microsoft is hosting a Virtual TechEd online. And for timely independent coverage, visit Mary Jo Foley’s Microsoft Watch, […]

Red Hat vs. Novell: Winner Take All

Red Hat vs. Novell: Winner Take All

When Red Hat announces quarterly results on June 28, the news may confirm what solutions providers already know: Red Hat Linux is easily outselling Novell SuSE Linux in the market place. Novell is quick to note that the North American Linux market is a two-horse race. But industry sources tell me Red Hat commands more […]

Microsoft CRM: Finally Ready for Success?

Microsoft CRM: Finally Ready for Success?

When Microsoft purchased Great Plains in 2001, many Redmond watchers–including me–expected the company to make an instant splash in the CRM and ERP markets. In retrospect, my 2001 exposÃ© on the Microsoft/Great Plains combo was too bullish. It has taken Microsoft far longer than expected to merge all of its ERP products into a single […]

How HP Upended Dell

How HP Upended Dell

Hewlett-Packard has scored a small but strategic victory in the server market that highlights how Dell lost touch with some customers. Rackspace, a respected managed service provider and Web hosting firm, is diversifying beyond Dell servers and embracing HP servers. The decision to embrace HP’s servers was first reported in Rackspace’s hometown paper, The San […]

Novell: Paging Dr. Stone

Novell: Paging Dr. Stone

Novell is in trouble again, and its two-time savior Chris Stone is off running a different company. In the late 1990s, Stone helped Novell stage a short-lived turnaround by releasing NetWare 5 with native TCP/IP support. And by the early 2000s, he helped orchestrate Novell’s open source push. But something strange–no, something shocking–happened in November […]

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