50% Bonus Depreciation in 2010 May Be A Great Deal For Your Business

Here is some important news for your budget planners, controllers, CFOs, CEOs, presidents and anyone else in charge of tax strategy at your firm. This information is provided to keep you abreast of changes in tax law and stimulus legislation that may impact your asset buying decisions. I suggest you talk to your tax advisor about how you can best take advantage of this legislation. You only have until 12/31/2010 to act.

Here is my understanding of what was signed today:

Today, I am doing a webinar for Ziff Davis and IBM. The subject is Smart IT Tool Management Strategies. As I was preparing the slides, I got to reflect on the evolution of network and server monitoring technologies over the past two decades. It has gone from very basic server and OS monitoring, over dial up lines that report to really simple text based consoles, to very sophisticated application and transaction monitoring that reports to complex graphical consoles.

Profit acquisition models for security integrators and resellers shifted years ago from selling hardware and software to value-added and managed security services.

Sun VARS: Hurd won't change Oracle's direct-sales focus Barbara Darrow, Senior News Director Published: 17 Sep 2010 E-Mail Print Some Hewlett-Packard VARs might follow former CEO Mark Hurd into the Oracle/Sun camp, saying he could moderate the company's direct-sales focus. [...]

An email snooping scandal at Google has prompted fierce criticism and has worried some enterprise users of its Google Apps service into silence. Google says it takes great pains to reassure customers that it has proper controls over sensitive email data.