Michael Vizard

Solution providers were invited in late March and April 2007 via e-mail and online to fill out an online ballot rating 2006s products by category. The online ballot first asked voters their involvement in each category; then, among those categories in which the voter resells products, five were chosen at random for detailed ratings of […]

APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT TOOLS Perhaps it should not come as much of a surprise that Microsoft would win here considering its focus on the category, but given all the hype surrounding open-source platforms, it is worth noting how handily Microsoft took the top spot with a score of 5.2 compared with second place finisher IBMs score […]

IBM is planning to unveil the first systems that will use next-generation Power6 processors within the next six weeks. At IBMs ParterWorld Conference in St. Louis, Ross Mauri, the general manager for System p in IBMs Systems and Technology group, told eWeek that Big Blue will be announcing new System p servers based on the […]

Its that time of year when everybody makes some sort of resolution about improving their business, only to see it go by the wayside before January is over. Given the fact that many solution providers are run by people who turned a technology avocation into an actual vocation, many of these people find themselves short […]

While many people like to talk about what the channel should be doing now or what they might do someday for the channel, not everyone actually follows the rhetoric with action. So it’s important to recognize and appreciate the people in any given year who actually put what they preach into practice. With that in […]

The CompTIA Educational Foundation has announced a new IT job training initiative under which it will create a fund to help returning veterans, people with disabilities and disadvantaged minorities break into the IT industry. Announced at the organizations SMB Summit in Tucson, Ariz., from Oct. 31 to Nov. 2, the Creating Futures program will be […]

For far too many years, solution providers and ISVs have been like ships passing in the night. They occasionally fire off a salute to one another around a specific project, but, for the most part, they usually dont engage each other on a regular basis. Fortunately, in the last couple of years there has been […]