I have just spent the last hour or so going over the sessions and events for the TechED event. The lineup looks very good for those in the Enterprise, but this is what gets to me personally, is that there seems to be only one session for all WESS which would include SBS, and another for EBS. So only two sessions for products that are launching only days after the event. To add insult to injury, TechED Australia has dedicated a complete day to WESS, and there had been a dedicated session just for SBS at TechED North America.
This to me makes no sense what so ever. There is a big wish for information on both SBS and EBS, and talking to those that are enterprise IT guys they do want to know more about it.
An event that will have over 4000 attendees, and not to avail of this turn out to inform them properly about SBS and EBS is incredible and seems to show a lack of understanding by Microsoft. To get the information out about the the two biggest Microsoft products to be released this year can be summed up as INCREDIBLE!
It seems that Microsoft have lost focus on the SMB market, and have recently taken a number of actions that will alienate their partners.
In the next few posts I am going to dissect some of Microsoft recent descision that have impacted the way that I see them and relate to them as a partner.
Thank you,
David
