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7.21.2005
Officially, there’s no word yet, but insiders say that the group will be ready to make major announcements by LinuxWorld in early August.

7.8.2005
Opinion: Microsoft can claim that it controls the horizontal and the vertical, but it doesn’t. No one can.

6.23.2005
Opinion: Microsoft offering indemnification to its partners shows that its encouragement of IP lawsuits, like SCO’s, has come back to bite it.

5.16.2005
Opinion: Welcome to the new economy, where middle-aged IT workers are too old for new jobs.

4.28.2005
There aren’t any huge technology business shows left, but the right trade show is still the right place for resellers and other IT professionals.

4.20.2005
Ignore the smoke Microsoft is blowing about Longhorn. Windows 2000 support is ending now, not in 2007, which means VARs need to look nowfor viable new desktops for their customers.

4.19.2005
Thunderbird, Mozilla’s open-source e-mail client, has some useful features that are worth experimenting with while waiting for a more advanced version to arrive.

4.12.2005
Opinion: Like it or not, ready or not, SP2 is landing on customers’ machines. And the results will (mostly) not be pretty. Brace yourself for a lot of phone calls and a lot of incompatibilities.

3.24.2005
Opinion: The new Linux Small Business Suite could give Microsoft’s Small Business Servers a run for their money.

3.18.2005
Opinion: In a surprising development, the IEEE’s next-generation 802.11n standard has firmed up much faster than expected, which means resellers and integrators can start deploying the next versions of pre-802.11n standard equipment with confidence.

3.11.2005
Opinion: With the release of Open Enterprise Service, Novell Linux Desktop and the upcoming ZENworks 7, Novell resellers finally have all they need to not only keep existing customers but to win back their old ones from the server to the desktop.

2.28.2005
Opinion: Veritas is making moves toward SMB resellers with elaborated partner programs, and there will be more changes soon in light of the Symantec merger.

2.10.2005
The company may be down after the court’s ruling that it lacks “competent evidence” in its case against IBM, but analysts and lawyers say it’s too early to tell how it will all end up.

2.9.2005
Opinion: Don’t forget to write. Resellers are happy that former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina is history for many reasons, but what comes next?

1.31.2005
Opinion: As the founder of Novell and the modern reseller system grows older, his Canopy empire is falling apart—and the war between SCO and Linux continues.

1.11.2005
Opinion: Things may be looking up for Apple and its customers at Macworld, but life isn’t getting any sweeter for disenchanted Apple resellers.

1.3.2005
Opinion: Yes, using old software and hardware that still works makes a good deal of sense, but don’t let that keep you or your customers from upgrading when it becomes truly necessary.

12.28.2004
Opinion: If Symantec and Veritas get their joint channel act together, Computer Associates is going to have a serious challenge on its hands.

12.1.2004
So, whom can you trust in the business world? Sadly, the answer is no one, until you’ve checked out them and their goods, according to eWEEK.com senior editor Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols.

11.11.2004
Opinion: Thin clients—yes, thin clients—are finally coming into their own as customers grow more concerned with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements.

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