SMB Nation Article on SBS 2008!
Hi Guys,
Thought you might find this SMB Nation article on SBS 2008 interesting reading - the graphics are not very clear but should give you an idea!!
For more on SMB Nation click here.
Also watch out for the very FIRST local Irish presentation on SBS 2008 from Mark Mulvany at the upcoming SBSC Partner Community Event on March 11th. You can register for the event here.
Thanks!
SBS 2008: BusinessSpeak Viewpoint
Perhaps you know about the announcement in recent days about SBS 2008 from the Windows Server team in Building 43 in Redmond and their PR partners WagEd out of Portland. You might have read some of the technical community blogs echoing the announcement and adding sophisticated commentary to provide richer technical context. All good.
I want to use this article for a different spin with a BusinessSpeak bent. First of all - the upgrade is welcome relief for SMB Nation tribal members seeking to upgrade their customers with the latest technology. It will be nearly five calendar years since the release of SBS 2003 by the time you get the new SBS 2008 bits to your customers.
For the record, the customer has the same choice (even more) with the SBS 2008 release. There are two editions: Standard and Premium. The details are displayed in the figure below and I point you to some resources to get more techie info. But what I want to emphasize as a small business owner is the second Windows Server 2008 license with SQL running on a second server. I am a line of business (LOB) kinda guy (as I write this, my capable operations director Cyndi Moody worked till nearly dawn updating our CRM database) and this attitude adjustment in the SBS product line reflects real world LOB thinking.
The other BusinessSpeak-ism I want to highlight is the integration with Microsoft Office Live - Small Business. This marriage between hosted and on-site SBS resources completes the dream first imagined by one of the original SBS product managers in the 1990s, Brian Jeans. Brian wrote an article in the first issue of this newsletter in July 2001. This newsletter was released at the Microsoft Fusion conference in Anaheim, CA (now the Worldwide Partner Conference) at a session led by another SBS program manager, Jerome Stewart who was touting the newly released SBS 2000 product. We started with a whopping 48 readers that day; we now have 15,000 readers. Brian Jeans wrote about his move to the bCentral team after four years of service on the SBS product team. He imagined a time when SBS and bCentral would intersect and interact. Fast forward seven years and you have the reality of SBS 2008 working with Microsoft Office Live - Small Business. So put that in your peace pipe and smoke it.
