More Data, Though Impressionistic, on Small Business....

It has been my contention over the last several months that no matter what enterprises might be doing, small businesses are behaving in quite different ways. Trent Johnsen, SMB Phone executive, says he is hearing from Canadian VARs and business phone specialists that business is pretty much where you would expect it to be, at this month of any year, and over the last several months.

Microsoft Response Point executives say they are hearing the same things from their talks with U.S. channel partners.

Curious, isn't it? There are indications, some impressionistic, some more structured, that small businesses in North America are behaving in counter-intuitive ways. Sure, they'll be careful.
But there is some evidence of consistency and stability in their hiring of people, expansion of business and buying of communications technology solutions.