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Reseller Advocate Magazine | Issue 84 December 2008


SHANGHAI NOON
We all know the great Western showdown clichés. Tumbleweeds. Sweat. People fleeing from the dusty streets as two gun-packing opponents face off under a merciless sun. Odds are good that one of them will be bruised and bleeding, barely able to stand. Somewhere, a soundtrack whistles a forlorn, warbling tune. Fingers twitch. No one breathes. It’s Shanghai time. More >>
A MATCH MADE
IN HEAVEN
Get ready for the old SMB infrastructure to change, as Microsoft puts the finishing touches on Small Business Server 2008 and introduces a brand-new business offering called Essential Business Server. We’ve been working with a hardware package that promises to do a great job complementing the new EBS package. More >>
DISK STORAGE
STRIKES BACK
With all the hype and buzz around solid state drives over the last few months, you’d think that hard disk technology, that old relic of magnetic particles and LP-like spinning platters, was already dead and buried. But the reality is that hard drives still own the vast majority of today’s storage market.  More >>



STICKING WITH THE UNDERDOG
Abu Dhabi already owns over 8% of AMD; this new round of investment will increase that. The Advanced Technology Investment Company and Abu Dhabi will plough additional money into the Foundry Company over several years. The upshot is that AMD will find itself with $1.2 billion less debt and a major cash infusion.  More >>
NEEDING MORE FROM MICROSOFT
Consider the company’s years of putting out channel-only processor SKUs and channel-only platforms, such as today’s Rich Creek 2 notebook form factor. No, if I had to pick one company to hold up as a bad actor in this time, it would be Microsoft.  More >>
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Nehalem: What The Players Think
We asked real experts who know the truth. Perhaps you’ll hear a common theme.  More >>

Dissecting the Winners of Intel’s “Your Desktop Innovation” Contest
  The votes are in. From all of the entries for Intel’s Your Desktop Innovation site, one winner was picked in each of five desktop categories: Dual-Socket Extreme (“Skull Trail”), Ultra-Small Form Factor, Consumer/Media, Extreme Gaming, and vPro-based Business.


The quad-core Opteron 8358 SE centers on a familiar Barcelona design. It runs at 2.4 GHz and sports 2MB of L3 cache to go along with its four 512KB L2 caches.  More >>