John Moore

About

John writes the Contract Watch column and his own column for the Channel Insider.John has covered the information-technology industry for 15 years, focusing on government issues, systems integrators, resellers and channel activities. Prior to working with Channel Insider, he was an editor at Smart Partner, and a department editor at Federal Computer Week, a newspaper covering federal information technology. At Federal Computer Week, John covered federal contractors and compiled the publication's annual ranking of the market's top 25 integrators. John also was a senior editor in the Washington, D.C., bureau of Computer Systems News.

Entering E-biz? Help Is Here

Solutions providers moving upstream into e-business integration face a serious and tough challenge even in the best of IT markets, let alone one marked by turbulence. Avnet Computer Marketing and IBM, however, aim to make the transition easier. The companies offer a host integration program intended to help solutions providers launch or expand an e-business […]

Tired of Chads? A Handful of Companies Are Rolling Out Internet Voting Technology

A highly specialized subset of the Internet industry wants to put those infamous dimpled chads far behind you and out of the election process. Makers of Internet-based voting systems say they offer a faster, more accurate method of counting votes. Such firms as Election.com, Safevote Inc. and VoteHere.net demonstrated their offerings in unofficial votes shadowing […]

Heres What Your Allies Want

Heres a New Years resolution some resellers and integrators would like to see vendors adopt: incentive programs that offer more than money. Indeed, partners are calling for product manufacturers to rethink their channel programs and traditional mechanisms, such as rebates, spiffs and referral fees. Moreover, they view the vendors growing mix of incentive programs as […]