Governance is a key component to ensuring the success of your SharePoint 2010 deployment. Microsoft SP 2010 Team published a great overview of the SharePoint 2010 Governance and Tools http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepoint/archive/2010/10/14/sharepoint-2010-governance.aspx

The average shopping cart abandonment rate among online retailers is 36%. 38% of online users do not buy online because they have to register with a site before purchasing. Online customers return to a site an average of three times before making a purchase. 45% of online shoppers had abandoned carts more than once over a three week period, leaving behind baskets worth an average of $109. 39% of online non-buyers didn't purchase online because they thought "returns would be a hassle." Your next eCommerce platform of choice - Aivea Commerce Server - http://www.aiveacommerceserver.com

Operating System Requirements of SharePoint 2010 -- http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2010/01/22/operating-system-requirements-of-sharepoint-2010.aspx

Product Types allows you to define dynamic metadata for your entities such as Product, you can use these dynamic metadata elements to do guided navigation, product comparison, predictive search etc. Please visit www.aiveacommerceserver.com for more details about Product Types and new ACS release 1.8

An upsell is to get the customer to spend more money - buy a more expensive model of the same type of product, or add features / warranties that relate to the product in question. A cross-sell is to get the customer to spend more money buy adding more products from other categories than the product being viewed or purchased. "You may also like" recommendations “Recommended products” “You may also like” “Customers who bought X also bought” “Customers who viewed X also viewed” “Frequently bought together” “Stuff you need” (Radio Shack, for accessories) “Stuff you may want” (Radio Shack, for items in other categories) “More from this (category, brand, author, artist)” “Looks hot with” “Complete the look”

We have heard several people stating that it's impossible to convert an Hyper-V VHD based image to Virtual PC format, We found a way to do it, basically you need to remove integration services (Hyper-V Guest components) before copy vhd, then replace hal.dll. STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS 1) Before you copy VHD file, REMOVE Hyper-V Integration Services (Hyper-V Guest Components) 2) Stop the Virtual Machine and copy the VHD file (let's call VirtualMachine1.vhd) 3) Start another virtual machine inside Virtual PC with same OS and use as a Secondary Disk the previous copied file (VirtualMachine1.vhd) - You need to mount the drive after the OS is booted up 4) Using Windows Explorer from the previous started virtual machine open the Secondary Disk (let's suppose it's recognized as E:) 5) Replace hal.dll from the secondary disk (E:\WINDOWS\system32\HAL.DLL) using the file present into C: Partition - C:\WINDOWS\system32\HAL.DLL 6) Don't install ACPI drivers More details about HAL.DLL file on: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309283

1. SharePoint Server 2010 will be 64-bit only.
2. SharePoint Server 2010 will require 64-bit Windows Server 2008 or 64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2.
3. SharePoint Server 2010 will require 64-bit SQL Server 2008 or 64-bit SQL Server 2005.

More information at http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/05/11/announcing-sharepoint-server-2010-preliminary-system-requirements.aspx

Namaste!

From Soma's Blog:

http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2009/05/18/visual-studio-2010-and-net-fx-4-beta-1-ships.aspx

SharePoint Server 2010 team has started testing with the Beta 1 bits.

Aivea Commerce Server team will soon start testing our product with .NET 4.0 Beta 1 as well.

 

WOW!3 Days, 06/1 - 06/03 (June 1st - 3rd), the Fun City will be converted into the SharePoint City for Administrators, Architects, Analysts and Developers! SharePoint Experts from Aivea is going to be at the Las Vegas Stratosphere Hotel for the Aivea SharePoint 2007 Architecture, Administration and Best Practices Boot Camp Training Check out Boot camp registration, and join us in Vegas! You can always attend the class from Your Desk connecting directly the class in Las Vegas!!! Please visit http://www.sharepointrangers.com/schedule/schedule.htm to register

Event Type:    Warning
Event Source:    Windows SharePoint Services 3 Search
Event Category:    Gatherer
Event ID:    2436
Date:        2/25/2009
Time:        12:35:04 PM
User:        N/A
Computer:    YOURMOSSSERVER
Description:
The start address </contentdbid={f683c2eb-afc7-4154-90ce-9d75a93c6a9f}> cannot be crawled.

Context: Application 'Search index file on the search server', Catalog 'Search'

Details:
    Access is denied. Check that the Default Content Access Account has access to this content, or add a crawl rule to crawl this content.   (0x80041205)

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp .

Resolution:

Follow these steps to Disable the loopback check which is causing the error:

1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
2. In Registry Editor, locate and then click the following registry key:

   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa

3. Right-click Lsa, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
4. Type DisableLoopbackCheck, and then press ENTER.
5. Right-click DisableLoopbackCheck, and then click Modify.
6. In the Value data box, type 1, and then click OK.
7. Quit Registry Editor, and then restart your computer.

See the following knowledge base article from Microsoft for full details on the error and another possible resolution: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896861