The VAR Guy and his team have been busy with some R&D projects in recent weeks. Plenty of new developments to potentially share soon. But in the meantime, here are six blogs The VAR Guy didn’t have a chance to write for the week ending Dec. 3, 2010.

7. Ninjas in the IT Department: The VAR Guy tried to think of a witty way to explain the following video, care of Vital Networks. But perhaps the video speaks for itself.

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6. Sweet Success: Epicom, a SugarCRM Gold Partner, was named SugarCRM’s first ever partner of the month for November 2010. Channel partners  account for approximately 70 percent of new SugarCRM billings.

5. Death Watch: Hewlett-Packard has killed its Windows Home Server line. The move comes amid a controversial technical change to Windows Home Server. The VAR Guy wonders: Is Windows Home Server an endangered species? Hmmm…

4. Conspiracy Theory: SaaS specialist NetSuite spends considerable time attacking SAP. But NetSuite doesn’t spend much time (if any) attacking Oracle. Why’s that? Hmmm… Could it be Oracle CEO Larry Ellison’s investment in NetSuite?

3. Cleared for Landing: Despite some challenging weather in Europe, the Cisco Partner Velocity marketing event is set to kick off Dec. 6 in Barcelona. VP of Worldwide Partner Marketing Luanne Tierney sure sounds relieved in her Twitter feed. Sounds like Keith Goodwin also will be on hand.

2. Big Gathering: Somewhere between 4,000 to 5,000 channel partners are expected to attend VMware Exchange (Feb. 8-11, Orlando), according to one source in the know. If that attendee range is accurate, the figures are pretty darn impressive.

1. Check the Headline: The VAR Guy doesn’t play by the rules. Never has. Never will. This is a top six list. So there is no number one…

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