http://community.crn.com/blogs/insideball Comment Feed for Inside Ball Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:13:54 GMT Clearspace 2.5.7 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2009-10-17T21:13:54Z http://community.crn.com/blogs/insideball/2009/08/17/the-channel-giving-back-and-the-future#comment-1611 What an amazing experience. I feel privileged to have been given the opportunity to play a small part in making it happen. Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:13:54 GMT RMCompufix http://community.crn.com/blogs/insideball/2009/08/17/the-channel-giving-back-and-the-future#comment-1611 2009-10-17T21:13:54Z http://community.crn.com/blogs/insideball/2009/09/11/is-saas-up-or-down#comment-1545 Until there is a fair way for VARs to sell, bill and build on cloud solutions, adoption is going to take awhile. The "do more with less" is more evident in PaaS type implementations. Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:12:23 GMT dcheng http://community.crn.com/blogs/insideball/2009/09/11/is-saas-up-or-down#comment-1545 2009-09-14T23:12:23Z http://community.crn.com/blogs/insideball/2009/09/09/it-should-be-getting-more-focus-in-health-care#comment-1544 There IS opportunity for IT in healthcare, but...(there always is a but, isn't there?) It's  four-way marriage: the healtcare industry, IT, channel parnters, and the consumer. And as Kevin points out, the consumer is the bottom line.   I'm not sure Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:39:55 GMT LoraineAntrim http://community.crn.com/blogs/insideball/2009/09/09/it-should-be-getting-more-focus-in-health-care#comment-1544 2009-09-12T15:39:55Z http://community.crn.com/blogs/insideball/2009/09/11/is-saas-up-or-down#comment-1533 We're making hay with SaaS, Ed. It depends on the customer. Shoot me a note, I'd be happy to talk more about it. Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:33:03 GMT SecurityTech http://community.crn.com/blogs/insideball/2009/09/11/is-saas-up-or-down#comment-1533 2009-09-11T19:33:03Z http://community.crn.com/blogs/insideball/2009/09/09/it-should-be-getting-more-focus-in-health-care#comment-1532 I'm viewing your question at too a high level maybe but here goes...why isn't IT discussed as much as policy, access, funding, etc. in relation to Health Care Reform?   As one other commenter noted, there are tons of vendors and users of IT in Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:17:33 GMT kevindhorne http://community.crn.com/blogs/insideball/2009/09/09/it-should-be-getting-more-focus-in-health-care#comment-1532 2009-09-11T18:17:33Z http://community.crn.com/blogs/insideball/2009/09/09/higher-capacity-drives-for-notebooks-will-hurt-netbooks#comment-1530 Thanks for the commentary, and good points. The problem is that smart phones do everything netbooks do, short of allowing you to type on a full keyboard - and smart phones fit into your pocket. My iPhone is an "inexpensive, super portable, web Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:24:17 GMT emoltzen http://community.crn.com/blogs/insideball/2009/09/09/higher-capacity-drives-for-notebooks-will-hurt-netbooks#comment-1530 2009-09-10T15:24:17Z http://community.crn.com/blogs/insideball/2009/09/09/higher-capacity-drives-for-notebooks-will-hurt-netbooks#comment-1542 I think you've reached a false conclusion. Netbooks are not about storage any more than they are about processor speed. Netbooks excel as inexpensive, super portable, web appliances. They’re often used as secondary or tertiary PC’s. With   802.11n and Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:06:57 GMT AECITVP http://community.crn.com/blogs/insideball/2009/09/09/higher-capacity-drives-for-notebooks-will-hurt-netbooks#comment-1542 2009-09-10T15:06:57Z http://community.crn.com/blogs/insideball/2009/09/09/apple-and-expectations#comment-1510 Great post, Ed - I agree. Apple has the same problem Craig's List has: Too much power concentrated in too few hands. Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:51:38 GMT MarcusIT http://community.crn.com/blogs/insideball/2009/09/09/apple-and-expectations#comment-1510 2009-09-09T22:51:38Z http://community.crn.com/blogs/insideball/2009/09/09/it-should-be-getting-more-focus-in-health-care#comment-1528 You make a good point Samara, and it's one I hear from solution providers and integrators constantly: why would they enter into the red tape nightmare of a large healthcare enterprise -- with its board members, department heads, administrators and other Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:34:13 GMT ChadB http://community.crn.com/blogs/insideball/2009/09/09/it-should-be-getting-more-focus-in-health-care#comment-1528 2009-09-09T15:34:13Z http://community.crn.com/blogs/insideball/2009/09/09/it-should-be-getting-more-focus-in-health-care#comment-1527 Donn Atkins wrote (in an inadvertently deleted reply):   "The IT healthcare solution area is ALL about partnering.  If there ever was an  opportunity for a true solution ecosystem to form,  this is one of those  moments.  No provider will have all Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:13:45 GMT emoltzen http://community.crn.com/blogs/insideball/2009/09/09/it-should-be-getting-more-focus-in-health-care#comment-1527 2009-09-09T15:13:45Z