The VAR Guy

A few weeks ago, I wrote about my search for an Ubuntu netbook.  I finally made a decision and received the new machine this week.  Read on for the details.

It’s time for Red Hat partners to look beyond Linux. That’s the key message for Red Hat’s channel in 2010. Sure, plenty of Red Hat resellers have also embraced Red Hat’s JBoss middleware. But now the open source company has something new cooking for partners: Hosted desktop virtualization. Here’s the update.

The VAR Guy’s SaaS 20 Stock Index, which tracks software as a service stocks, rose a whopping 65.44 percent in 2009, including a healthy 3.63 percent in December 2009. Pretty impressive. But which SaaS companies performed best last year — and can the SaaS industry stay hot in 2010? Here are some thoughts.