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I just posted some advice about the benefits of partnering with Microsoft.  Those benefits are real.  Now, for an equally real rant. It’s not until you’re fully engaged with Microsoft, and you are in fact working like hell to make the most of that relationship, that you realize just how fully maddening their Partner Web site really is.  […]

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Don Dodge and Cliff Reeves of the Microsoft Emerging Business Team (EBT) continue to crank out good advice about partnering with Microsoft, especially for ISV startups — but I think it’s time for some of us ISV startup partners to weigh in, too.  “Partnering with Microsoft” is an easy thing to say, and, superficially, an easy thing to […]

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I spent the day yesterday at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose where Dow Jones is holding an event called “Enterprise Ventures,” a matchmaking event where many VCs get together to hear many startups give short pitches.  I gave two 20-minute presentations about Digipede this afternoon, which is never bad practice, and I ended up with quite […]

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George Laszlo just posted about Microsoft’s recent announcement of the BioIT Alliance.  His post includes the sort of positioning that makes no sense to me.  At one level, Mr. Laszlo presents some quotes from the press release, and some reasonable commentary thereon.  It could well be that Microsoft is “…simply playing catch-up here with IBM,” as Mr. Laszlo’s analysis says.  But […]

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We get questions about how the Digipede Network compares to Vendor X or Open Source Project Y pretty often; a recent example is from Matt Davey’s Tales from a Trading Desk, where Matt asked: .NET Grid Computing. Not sure what it’s advantages are over and above DataSynapse. Would be interested to know if anyone has […]

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OK, let’s start with something simple — my trip to New York City last week for the Microsoft Financial Developers Conference.  Microsoft gathered four hundred of the Best and Brightest from Wall Street, Redmond, and even Oakland, for two days of give and take at the Millenium Broadway Hotel.  I went with Digipede Product Manager […]

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