The Windows Vista push by Microsoft to its partners is horrible. We’re being told Vista is here to stay, you need to have Vista implemented in your organization so that you can begin the push of Vista to your clients.
On the other hand, Microsoft’s public front represents a different story. We have a CEO making [...]
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Our vendor relationships have been taking a hit this last month. We lost our antivirus provider, our perimeter based anti-spam/virus solution vendor emailed us today with the 2008 pricing structure and of course there are minimum order changes along with price increases.
We have a spreadsheet to analyze our MSP profit, cost analysis and break-even points. We’ve adjusted our [...]
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While attending SMB Nation this year, I made it a goal to talk to an HP rep about their program. I met a nice guy very willing to talk to me about HP servers, desktops etc. I expressed that I currently recommend Dell and explained my reasons:
1) I know how to spec and price in [...]
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There’s been a lot of discussion and concern amongst the partner channel that Dell’s acquisition of Silverback is a sure sign that Dell wants to compete in the managed services business. In all fairness, considering the margin on hardware, it’s not hard to understand why.
The honest truth is only those executives within Dell truly know [...]
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We all know them, the businesses who quickly tell us they’ve got a guy. To help the SBSC’s out there Microsoft has created some resources to show businesses how logical this ‘We’ve gotta guy,’ thought process really is.
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Here’s a great new resource for SBS Partners:
Based on partner inputs, the SBS 2003 R2 Test Drive is a Web-based tool designed to help partners demonstrate key SBS components to SMB prospects and customers. With the Test Drive, you can guide prospects and customers through videos and hands-on labs—and access partner-only content to experience, or [...]
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Hello All,
This is my first attempt at contributing back to the SMB community, I’ve been the recepient of valuable information from Vlad’s blog, David Schrag’s blog, Chad’s blog, Susan’s blog, Anne Stanton’s blog, Mobile SMB’s Yahoo Groups to Jeff Middleton’s Swing Migration and his great New Orlean’s conference.
I’m hoping that I contribute a fraction [...]
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