An organization that sells hardware and software to the general public. Resellers purchase products from software publishers and hardware manufacturers.
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- Microsoft cuts BPOS price to squeeze Lotus
- Not for Smaller businessesA nice new angle to look at Microsoft's price cut. Microsoft is undoubtedly targeting the enterprise segment with BPOS, since in spite of the price cut, BPOS is complex and needs implementation support, and costs more from a total cost point of view. (Varguy reported a reseller...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- Smartplanet: Apple can grab more share by slashing Mac prices
- RE: Smartplanet: Apple can grab more share by slashing Mac pricesIf they wanted marketshare at a lower entry price they could have pulled that off years ago with cloner acquisitions and more mfg on their own part with rigid standards and practices to ensure quality and lower production costs. ...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-04
- Google defines its focus in Apps in 2010
- Chrostopher: the need for detailed formatting as we know it is going away.Actually, the detailed formatting is moving to making it look like you want on computer screens, NOT on paper, which is quite different.All of those baroque features for printing on 8.5x11 paper are looking more stupid every day.Interesting...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-02
- EC ramps up PR war with Intel (by publishing 518 page decision)
- Not a big surpriseThe EC is a protectionist tool extorting technology and money from the creative genius of the US and other countries outside the EU. If you are successful, you are a target.RE: EC ramps up PR war with Intel (by publishing 518 page decision)Well that says it...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-21
- Mobile Solution Helps Military Reseller Improve Productivity More Than 50%
- To help manage products, Dunham & Smith Agencies has migrated a mobile application created in 1998 to the Windows Mobile platform. The new system allows field representatives to more easily capture and upload images to a Web site for customers to view their in-store displays. Pictures are now available within...
- Case studies 2009-09-15
- HP Business Inkjet 2800dtn
- Rubbish printer, poor reliability, print quality and supportWe are a small engineering business, and have a number of large format printers. The HP 2800dtn is by far the worst printer we have ever experienced. It was purchased to replace the our canon BIJ2300 after 3 years of service. What a...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-10
- Solutions Provider Drives Global Growth With Vertical Focus and Partner Channel
- Modus Consult, a German provider of vertical software solutions that integrate with Microsoft Dynamics NAV, sought ways to grow its business and protect it from economic instabilities. The company gained Certified for Microsoft Dynamics NAV validation for its solutions and, with assistance from Microsoft partner account managers, identified potential reseller...
- Case studies 2009-09-10
- Xeon 5500 (Nehalem) servers: a group test
- Intel's Xeon 5500 processor has made a big splash in the server world as the major manufacturers each have their own brands featuring the 45nm Nehalem architecture. But which one is best? ZDNet UK's Alan Stevens puts the top models to the test and chooses a winner: ...
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- Salesforce opens cloud to resellers, expanding AppExchange
- Salesforce is taking cloud computing on the road, opening its force.com platform to third-party channel re-sellers - everyone from the local one-man IT shop to the big systems integrators. Today, the company will announce its new Value Added Reseller VAR program as a way of helping...
- Blog posts 2009-08-26
- The! meaning! of! bing!
- they're all dyingcan three men dying in a boat save one another, well I guess cannibalism could work.HP: has cut their printer line so much that I have to wait a month to get a printer shipped direct from themIntel: actually the strongest of the bunch, but your right their...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-08
- What happens when TCO meets the cloud
- Is it time for total cloud ownership? Vinnie Mirchandani thinks so and there's a good case that cloud computing players will overturn the economics of enterprise IT industry. Mirchandani is playing off of the total cost of ownership acronym TCO with his cloud pun, but his message...
- Blog posts 2009-07-30
- Microsoft: European XP and Vista users to get the ballot screen, too
- Microsoft: European XP and Vista users to get the ballot screen, tooWhy is MS doing this??Why are they backing down? MS did exactly what Opera asked for and wanted:"Opera requests the Commission to implement two remedies to Microsoft?s abusive actions. First, it requests the Commission to obligate Microsoft to...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-27
- News to know: Amazon-Zappos; eBay earnings; Windows server; AMD; Plastic Logic Reader; Apple-AT&T
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: A good fit: Amazon gobbles up Zappos Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Don't Forget to Turn Out the Lights,...
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- Financial Opportunities of Reselling GlobalSign SSL Certificates
- The GlobalSign Reseller Program is designed for ISP's, Web Hosts, Integrators, Domain Registrars and VARs who wish to integrate SSL Certificates into their own product range, maximizing the SSL reseller opportunity. For example there are many hosting companies that find they are already hosting hundreds of SSL Certificates from numerous...
- White papers 2009-07-23
- IBM bolsters Juniper pact; Reseller deal with Cisco
- IBM took its relationship with Juniper up a notch by announcing and original equipment manufacturer deal. Big Blue also announced deals with Brocade and Cisco. Under the Juniper deal, the latest in a string of IBM-Juniper collaborations, IBM will rebrand and sell Juniper EX and MX switches and routers...
- Blog posts 2009-07-22
- Pigs do fly: Microsoft unleashes 20,000 lines of Linux code
- Pigs do fly: Microsoft unleashes 20,000 lines of Linux codeWSFU GPLWindows Services for UNIX has some GPL utilities in it: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321712VMWARE Lower TCO, Higher ReliabilitySmart shops will skip virtualization from MS - garbage at its best. Resume generating event at its worst.RE: Pigs do fly: Microsoft unleashes 20,000 lines...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-20
- What do you want from your next computer?
- What do you want from your next computer?I am happy with my laptop but battery too smallI have a Acer 5315-2715 which is really nice. I however hate to run this on the battery because I only have 2 hours or less depending on what I am doing.It would be...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-17
- CIT unraveling could be headache for Dell, Avaya, resellers
- The U.S. government has drawn a line in the sand---it won't bail out debt-ridden CIT, a financial services firm that loans money to small and midsized business in part to buy and lease technology equipment. Unlike other financial company implosions CIT's potential demise could have a direct impact on technology...
- Blog posts 2009-07-16
- Survey: Microsoft customer satisfaction takes second quarter hit
- Survey: Microsoft customer satisfaction takes second quarter hitIf they suck so muchWhy competitor can't manage to significantly increase market share in many fields where Microsoft is keeping(O.S) or even increasing(Server,B.I) its market share, like O.S market ?Could it be that much of the negative perception people has of Microsoft...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-15
- Business licensees to get final Windows 7 release in July
- On July 10, Microsoft notified its reseller partners that it plans to allow business users who've purchased volume licenses plus Software Assurance contracts to get Windows 7 before the end of July. by Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-07-10
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