![]() Perhaps he’s too close to tech companies to make wise investment choices. But he generally loses more money than he makes on tech stocks. He’s owned Red Hat, Intel, Dell, Cisco and a few other tech companies in recent years. His one individual tech holding at the moment is (CRM). Tech Investments: The VAR Guy has a few bucks in the stock market, but not enough to brag about. Steve would surely have security escort The VAR Guy from Apple’s campus within 10 minutes of meeting our resident blogger. And he always needs to get the last word in an argument. The reason? The VAR Guy is arrogant and opinionated. He admires Steve Jobs but can never imagine working for him. He blogs using his MacBook Pro on most days, but jumps over to his Ubuntu system whenever he needs to get into the open source mindset. ![]() He sees hybrid models emerging, where customers choose the best of open and closed source, and piece them together into solutions.Īpple: The VAR Guy loves all things Apple. He’s a fan of the open source model, but he doesn’t believe all open source is better than closed source. Closed Source: The VAR Guy runs Ubuntu on a Dell desktop. But Microsoft’s desktop operating system is, um, a pathetic attempt to charge people for bloated software. ![]() Strategies like hosted SharePoint, Exchange and Dynamics CRM seem really promising. Microsoft: The VAR Guy loved Windows NT Workstation and NT Server in the 1990s, but he was bitterly disappointed with Windows Vista and he thinks Microsoft has lost its way - though not fully - in the Web 2.0 age. Asay says he prefers media and blogs that disclose their biases about tech products, companies, investments, etc. The VAR Guy smiled a bit when he read Matt Asay’s blog entry about media folks who pretend they’re unbiased.
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