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10 Best IT Products Of 2006

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i-do-so-love-a-top-ten-list dept.

digihome writes "CRN.com chooses the ten best new products of 2006, including the best development tools, server, notebook and storage device. Some of the choices may surprise you ... such as their choice for operating system of the year." From the article: "With Windows Vista, Microsoft has refreshed the user desktop experience. While debate rages over whether the five-year wait was worth it, the truth is Vista is pretty much the only game in town. One may question whether Vista should be bestowed with Product of the Year recognition in the operating system category. But the product unquestionably brings new features and capabilities to solution providers that in turn promise new revenue generation dialogues with end users."

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  1. Impressive! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    But the product unquestionably brings new features and capabilities to solution providers that in turn promise new revenue generation dialogues with end users.

    Wow! It must be really cool if it does that!

    1. Re:Impressive! by polar+red · · Score: 5, Insightful

      It's when you read sentences like those, that you are sure the article is written by some marketing departement, and not by a technology specialist.

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      Yes, I'm left. You have a problem with that?
    2. Re:Impressive! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      But the product unquestionably brings new features and capabilities to solution providers that in turn promise new revenue generation dialogues with end users. *head explodes*
    3. Re:Impressive! by Amazing+Quantum+Man · · Score: 5, Insightful
      in turn promise new revenue generation dialogues with end users.

      Yeah, I figure they mean this kind of dialogue:
      End User: Hi. I'm having a problem with $PRODUCT

      Tech Support: Hi. We need your credit card number. Tech Support is $45/hour.


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      Fascism starts when the efficiency of the government becomes more important than the rights of the people.
    4. Re:Impressive! by jbrader · · Score: 5, Funny
      "Buy it."

      "Why? We don't need it."

      "sudo buy it"

      "ok"

      With apologies to xkcd

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      You are so boring that when I see you my feet go to sleep.
    5. Re:Impressive! by bitt3n · · Score: 5, Funny

      My crowbar should get product of the year. I use it to engage in revenue generating dialogue with random people on the street.

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      how many pairs of boxer shorts should you own?
    6. Re:Impressive! by a.d.trick · · Score: 5, Funny

      I took me a while to figure it out, but this is the best Engish translation I can come up with:

      The product provides a way for businesses to commit highway robery on their customers.
    7. Re:Impressive! by cyber-vandal · · Score: 5, Funny

      The mangling of the English language for no good reason really sucks though. Revenue generation dialogues indeed. Why don't these arseholes just disappear up their own arseholes and do us all a favour.

  2. No! No! No! They got it all wrong by antifoidulus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Tiger was released LAST year so it shouldn't be considered a winner for this year....oh wait, that ISN'T Tiger? Well I'll be damned....

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    Monstar L
  3. 2006? by onedobb · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So a product that will be released in 2007 is the product of the year in 2006? Now I'd defend Microsoft to a point, but this is absolute bullshit. Vista should not win this at all. It's not even released to the mass market yet.

  4. Top 10... by _PimpDaddy7_ · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nice, they put them on ten pages...filled with wonderful ads and other Christmas goodies.

    Anyways, here's the top ten, Karma Whore, Beeeeatch!

    WEB DEVELOPMENT TOOL
    DataDirect Technologies Stylus Studio 2007

    SECURITY SOFTWARE
    Astaro Security Gateway

    NETWORKING HARDWARE
    Server Partners File Engine

    STORAGE
    Intel SS4000-E

    APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT TOOL
    Compuware DevPartner 8.0

    IMAGING
    Minolta Magicolor 7450

    NOTEBOOK
    Hewlett-Packard Compaq NC6400

    APPLICATION SOFTWARE
    Microsoft Exchange 2007

    OPERATING SYSTEM
    Microsoft Vista Enterprise Edition

    SERVER
    SuperServer 5015M-MR

  5. If I cared by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    the truth is Vista is pretty much the only game in town

    If I still cared I'd throw a fit at that comment. Instead I'll happily continue to use Ubuntu on my laptop and OSX on my Desktop. Vista who?

  6. Consider the source by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    CRN = Computer Reseller News. Of course they're going to love Vista!-- rolling out Vista will be a boon to computer resellers everywhere, because few businesses are going to bother upgrading the vast majority of their existing machines, they're going to replace them with hardware beefy enough to run Vista with most of its bells and whistles.

    This is hardly an award given for technical merit. Vista represents a full trough for all the revenue-hungry pigs to crowd around.

  7. This Article Smells of Bad Cheese by twifosp · · Score: 5, Insightful
    With advertisements becomming harder and harder to shove down people's throats, CRN has a solution for you. Clevery disguised as a top 10 list, we will include your product, written by your own marketing department, for a nominal fee. Be sure to include plenty of buzzwords and acronyms about how it will transform your life, but try not to include any real technical information on why this product is the best!

    -- Jeff P. Realname

  8. wow what a spammy website by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting


    Adblock Plus blocked 44 out of 90 objects on each page (not including referrer links or sponsor links!)

    so >50% of each page is adverts and then the "article" (if i can call it that) is spread over 10 pages, i guess there is no dignity on that site

    adding content must be so inconvenient them, at what point does a site go from providing a quality service to becoming a spam linkfarm ?

    thank goodness for adblock and a hostsfile, good example of how to piss off a visitor

  9. They didn't have an OS category last year by SwedishPenguin · · Score: 5, Interesting

    or the year before that.
    So it seems to me that this new "best operating system" category was tailor-made for Vista. Add to that the fact that Vista is being named product of the year for a year where it's been available for companies for less than a month, hardly enough time for companies to migrate, and it looks to me like a marketing puff piece written, or funded, by Microsoft.