Archive for the ‘Rants’ Category
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
It's no secret that companies like Time Warner Business Class Cable, Comcast and Cox communications (to name a few of the big ones) want to sell bandwidth and add-on services to your customers but now the game is changing as they move into competition with you. You knew it would, ...
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Sunday, November 18th, 2007
Microsoft has apparently conspired with Comcast to give away the key benefits of SBS and Centro with Microsoft Communication Services.
In a press release last week, Microsoft announced it's plans to have Comcast bundle some of the MS Live services that directly compete with the very same solutions many Microsoft SBSC ...
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
...from Scott McClung when defining heuristic analysis scanning by Symantec’s AV products: “If it looks like a duck, talks like a duck and walks like a duck then it’s a duck. Block that duck!”
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
So while Dell is actively working to commoditize managed services the same way Wal-Mart has with clothing and other cheap Chinese consumer goods, they are also actively delivering PCs through Wal-Mart.
Now is where I say: BUYER BEWARE!
I was chatting with one of my customers yesterday whom is a key strategic vendor ...
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
Wow! So I mentioned it last week that VaaS was right around the corner but I didn't realize Michael Dell was one of my seven readers. ;-) So what did you expect from the largest direct distributor of PCs that now owns a major managed services platform? Dell's first (it ...
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
Today I had it up to here (visualize me holding my hand above my head) with a software we use to run our business. Seems I spend more time lately getting the bugs and quirks resolved on the software than I do using it to make us money. So today ...
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
I've been told that if you can't dazzle them with your brilliance then baffle them with your your bull$#@!. While that certainly wasn?t my goal yesterday I quickly found out that it was my talent (I?m sure Susan will show now no mercy in telling you the same). ...
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
There has been a lot of chatter about the state of the community lately. Some positive and some very negative, some constructive, some pointless. Folks have been talking about the International SBS Group Leaders community, the SBSC community, the MS Community, the SMB Community and the IT Pro community. So ...
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Thursday, September 6th, 2007
I try to stay out of pointless arguments and rants but eventually I get tired of ducking. Chris Rue wrote a great blog this morning to vent his frustrations and offered some good insight into the viral negativity that seems to invisibly plague this community and I believe is part ...
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Friday, August 24th, 2007
So Vlad, Dave Sobel and I sitting at lunch yesterday doing what we do best - making fun of each other, our customers and if you are reading this, probably you. We came up with a few new SLA rules, ideas and points to ponder that I thought were worth sharing. ...
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