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SMB Nation - Day 1
October 3, 2009
Wow - SMB Nation is one of those drink from the fire hose conferences, especially when it comes to good old professional networking.
Had some good vendor conversations today, including with Seattle-based disaster recovery vendor Symform. They’re generating a lot of buzz among the MSP community, as is Zenith Infotech.
It’s good to see that IBM is here promoting Lotus Foundations, although SMB Nation’s roots are in the SBS community, so I’m guessing that Foundations will have an uphill battle selling into this crowd. Still, competition is a great thing, and Notes is a product with a strong history.
Finally, saw an SBS 2003 to 2008 upgrade demo. It was conducted by some IT consultants that clearly really know their stuff, but it’s nevertheless a quite complicated procedure. I can see customers migrating onto 2008 for hardware refresh, although I’d still have to wonder if the software upgrade is worthwhile. Again, it’s pretty complex, and 2003 works so well, I can see 2008 being a hard sell to existing SBS customers.
Also want to shout out to Kortek Solutions and MPECS Inc. - more IT solution providers who really bring the expertise and passion that customers need.
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