Dow dips below 10,000, what does it mean for VARs?
As I write this, I am watching the Dow drop. It has just dipped below 10,000, after about 30 minutes of market activity, and is headed further south very quickly. This can't be good for anybody, and the time has come to admit that the IT business is going to feel the hit.
Amazon EC2 to run Microsoft Windows Server
Maybe it's because they liked the Jerry Seinfeld commercials. For whatever reason, Amazon has gotten the Microsoft religion and will be running Windows Server and SQL Server on its Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2).
Is the VAR dead?
A Channel Marker blog yesterday got attention with the headline, "R.I.P. V.A.R.?" But don't write that obituary just yet. Of course, the VAR isn't dead, despite the attention-getting lead directed at VARs, proclaiming, "You're dead." Of course, I'm a sucker for a sensationalistic headline, and I've generated one or two myself.
Little add-ons add up to big dollars
Value-added resellers, almost universally impacted by the country's financial crunch, are looking for more opportunities to increase deal size. Global positioning system (GPS) technology, although it is widely available and doesn't offer much in the way of markup, may nonetheless help serve the VAR's agenda.
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