November 11, 2011
Poor sales of Chromebooks won’t stop Google from promoting Chrome OS On ZDNet, Sean Portnoy reports on low sales numbers. “Despite those abysmal numbers, Google hasn’t given up extolling the virtues of Chrome OS, with executive chairman Eric Schmidt talking it up in a speech earlier this week. In theory, it does have some advantages, like far speedier boot-up times than Windows systems, but the fact that it forces users to rely on the cloud for all of their application needs is a significant drawback when you’re not connected to the Internet,” he writes. What’s your opinion?
Tech sugar daddies shovel millions into Hadoop war On The Register, Matt Asay looks at who will flash more cash. “Well, venture capitalists do, for one, and at valuations that entrepreneurs might be unwise to pass up. In a hot market like Big Data, where Cloudera and Hortonworks compete, it seems that VCs are trying to preempt competition by going very big, very fast, in a scorched earth policy of sorts for would-be competitors,” he writes. What’s your opinion?
Apple makes partner noise at ConnectWise IT Nation, HTG On The VAR Guy, reports on some interesting channel moves by the company. “Generally speaking, HTG Peer Group members are VARs and MSPs serving small businesses. The members typically are progressive small business owners, who pursue high-margin, recurring revenue opportunities that most resellers otherwise overlook. Many of the HTG members also grew up supporting Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Exchange networks within small businesses,” he writes. What’s your opinion?