Affiliate Programs and Affiliate Reviews
Open development platforms and their offspring — mashups — are behind the significant changes in CRM functionality that have been introduced over the last year or so. These are early days for Platform as a Service, though, and each vendor is approaching the technology on its own preferred path.
Most segments of the technology market are hurting due to the recession, but one — open source systems — appears to be thriving despite the economic turmoil. Open source vendors such as Red Hat, SugarCRM and Vyatta say the recession has compelled organizations and corporations large and small to take a closer look at Linux-based software and hardware in an effort to reduce costs.
On paper, the affiliate market appears to be among the most lucrative marketing channels. At its core, it is a revenue-sharing model among a network of Web sites or partners that receive a cut of the sales of any products that they promote. In reality, though, using an affiliate network to drive sales can be tricky.
Rivals Sun Microsystems and HP have inked a new multiyear agreement that enables HP to sell and support Sun’s Solaris operating system on HP ProLiant server and blade system computers. The new deal’s intent is to increase demand for Solaris on both HP ProLiant servers and server blades in new markets.
Follow a mail carrier around sometime; provided you don’t get arrested for stalking a civil service worker, you’ll likely notice a proliferation of bright-red Netflix envelopes containing the latest DVDs being shoved into mailboxes. But a statement by a company executive in New York Wednesday may signal the beginning of the end of such colorful real-world distribution of movies.