Leave it Los Angeles County government officials to enact another idiotic public law. Now peer-to-peer video and audio piracy has been declared on par with gambling, gang-banging and prostitution, and property where such activity occurs can be closed for as much as a year.
Sounds like Dell Computer is about to engage in a delicate balancing act with its new-found channel partners. The vendor is launching a managed services initiative to sell to customers directly. So will Dell destroy margins in managed services the way it did with PCs?
The technology industry and channel partners are certainly much better off because of the Internet. The technology changes it has spawned have resonated through the channel for more than a decade. But are we totally missing the downside of that experience?
