HostingCon 2008 and SmarterTools
What a ride! And what a great way to launch the official SmarterTools blog. SmarterTools arrived in full force at HostingCon 2008. When we attended last year, one of the most frequent requests from...
View ArticleSmarterTools Shines in Google Chrome
I hope that you all saw our press release last week: http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/080911/20080911005193.html?.v=1 Yes, SmarterMail, SmarterTrack, and SmarterStats all look good and function well in Google’s...
View ArticleAlerts, Notifications, and SmarterNotify – The Power to Manage Customer...
I just received a text message on my cell phone. No big deal, right? We each get perhaps a dozen or more text messages every day from family and friends about everything from one-line jokes to dinner...
View ArticleCloud Computing – Challenges, Benefits, and the Future
Last week, SmarterTools had the opportunity to present at PubCon, a technology conference hosted by Webmaster World. I represented SmarterTools in a panel discussion on Cloud Computing–specifically to...
View ArticleUnderstanding the New Outsourced and non-Outsourced Microsoft SPLA Licensing...
Understanding the Service Provider License Agreement (SPLA) program and Microsoft licensing in general has always been a bit challenging. Recently SmarterTools has been getting questions from...
View ArticleMicrosoft Hosted Online Services Lowers Costs – What’s Going On?
Keep Your Customers Close, and Keep a Closer Eye on Microsoft For years, Microsoft has been encouraging hosting providers to offer hosted MS Exchange solutions. For almost as long, Microsoft has...
View ArticleGoogle Search Hierarchies — Breadcrumbs and Indexing = Opportunity
Anyone who knows me knows that I am not shy about throwing a few barbs at Google—specifically because of the personal pet peeve that there is no such thing as a free lunch or a free app. But that is a...
View ArticleDotNetPanel – Why Open Source and Why Now?
The impact of recent news on control panel and hosting markets At first blush, it was a shocking development in the world of hosting control panels. DotNetPanel, a Microsoft Windows-based control...
View ArticleMicrosoft Makes a Bid for (SPLA) Redemption
New plans and competitive pricing for SPLA, service providers, and cloud offerings Nearly eighteen months ago we discussed, in this very blog, some potentially negative results from Microsoft adjusting...
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