Category Archives: IT Business

Best Buy now Gold Certified Partner

Posted: 9:37 am
March 14, 2006
IT Business, Microsoft
8 Comments

Best Buy is now a Gold Certified Partner in addition to being trained by Harry Brelsfords books. There has been relatively little interest in this by IT consultants but having dealt with Microsoft Partners for over a decade I can … Continue reading →

Ewic Wigman Hunting Piwates

Posted: 7:44 pm
March 13, 2006
IT Business, Microsoft
8 Comments

Just a quick update on all the piracy talk we had on Vladville a little earlier last month. It seems that a number of meetings that Eric was in have taken some fruit and there is at least some stronger … Continue reading →

Hands off my youngin’ Microsoft!

Posted: 11:18 pm
March 7, 2006
IT Business, Microsoft
8 Comments

My Golden Boy has a very interesting post of Microsoft going around him to reach the client he nominated for a promotion. Ouch. So not only are Microsoft partners completely abandoning the hope in Microsoft of ever developing secure software, … Continue reading →

Best Buy vs. SMB IT Consulting: Part 2

Posted: 10:45 am
March 2, 2006
IT Business, SMB
12 Comments

Following up on the previous post from John Holmblad of Televerage International, here is the callback that was promised. Scared yet? I received a return call this A.M. from the Business Technology Consultant (BTC) who serves the BB for B … Continue reading →

Best Buy for Business To End SMB IT Consultants?

Posted: 2:09 am
February 28, 2006
IT Business, SMB
6 Comments

That got your attention. A friend of mine, John B. Holmblad of Televerage International, went to Best Buy this week and did some digging about the Best Buy for Business. Many ignored the Geek Squad and dismissed it as a … Continue reading →

Step after Sale, Implementation and Documentation

Posted: 11:33 pm
February 25, 2006
IT Business, Microsoft
3 Comments

Orlando IT Pro was very fortunate to host Mike Sanders from Kaseya earlier this week and see how professional managed services can benefit IT solution providers. So when the following tool was announced I was all ears: Baseline TCO Assessment … Continue reading →

Microsoft and Novell Midmarket Bundles That Nobody Bought

Posted: 7:04 am
February 6, 2006
IT Business
3 Comments

Paula Rooney has an excellent article over at CRN about the products nobody will buy… I mean, about the challenges major software vendors have when offering bundles to the midmarket. The genius part of the whole article is at the … Continue reading →

The Unified Theory of IT Economics

Posted: 11:52 pm
January 29, 2006
IT Business
6 Comments

No "strings" attached 😉 And if you don't get the joke then you should really seek a refund from your engineering school. Here, for your Monday reading, is the fundamental unified theory of IT economics when it comes to a … Continue reading →

Evangelism in Technology

Posted: 9:42 am
January 15, 2006
IT Business, IT Culture
on Evangelism in Technology

This opinion piece comes on the heels of a discussion started on two groups I belong to, the Greater Orlando Linux Users Group and SBS 2K group. Being Microsoft and Linux biased these two bunches would claim to be worlds … Continue reading →

Talk about starting off on the wrong foot

Posted: 9:10 pm
January 1, 2006
IT Business
on Talk about starting off on the wrong foot

About three hours ago Chris, Beatrice and I got together to record the 12th episode of the SBS Show and talk about Beatrice's new book "Making It Big In Small Business 2006: Top 15 Successful SMB Consultants Share Strategies And … Continue reading →