Recent Articles
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Goodbye and Good Riddance to the Tablet PC
Well, it looks like the Tablet PC is in a decline again. Good. It’s about time. After proclaiming Tablet PCs the greatest thing since sliced bread, Microsoft is backing off them. At WinHEC, Darin Fish, business development manager in Microsoft’s mobile platforms division, said no final decision has been made on whether there will be…
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It’s Miller Time
Although investors remain wary of channel stocks, anecdotal evidence suggests that business is picking up for solutions providers and major technology providers. IT consulting firm Keane Inc., for one, says it has signed a three-year application outsourcing agreement with Miller Brewing Co., the world’s second largest beer company. Under terms of the agreement, Keane will…
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CEO Says EDS Has Lost Several Contracts
IRVING, Texas—Companies rarely boast about cutting the shareholders’ dividend, so it was noteworthy this week when officials at Electronic Data Systems Corp. alerted reporters to one paragraph in a 27-page filing in which the company suggested it may do just that. These, however, are not ordinary times at EDS. Chairman and chief executive Michael H.…
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Small Business Wins the Game
Wouldn’t it be great if every deal you ever made were for six, seven—dare we say it?—eight figures? It would also be great if I could lose weight eating chocolate ice cream, but it doesn’t work that way. Instead, what most of us rely on are bread-and-butter four- to six-figure deals to keep the money…
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Channel News Roundup–Week of May 11
Network Associates, Check Point Offer Security Solution for SMBs SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Intrusion prevention solutions provider Network Associates and Internet security company Check Point Software announced the availability of McAfee Secure-1, a managed gateway and desktop security solution for small businesses. The integrated solution provides an affordable way to protect company data. Secure-1 provides a way…
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Desktop Linux To-Do List
For Linux to become a real competitor to Windows on the desktop, Linux distributors must refine their software installation and management systems. There are some loose ends that need to be tied up and some tricky legal knots to unravel. In this week’s issue, I review the latest Linux distributions from MandrakeSoft and Novell’s SuSE…
