This was the questions Charles Weaver asked in his recent post on the MSPAlliance blog.
My answer: No.
No industry is totally immune to a recession.  That being said, I think managed service providers are in much better shape in a recession than most businesses are.  Why?  A few reasons:

First and foremost, if your technology stops working at [...]

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Is it just me or did you notice that there is nothing about partners providing managed services in there?
Normally I would spend the evening writing about how Dell is going to cause themselves a problem with the channel if they continue down this path but I think our friends at MSP mentor did a great [...]

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Hurray!  Somebody outside of our industry – a major publication for small businesses at that – is starting to use the language Managed Service Provider! 
This is a big deal.
For those of you that don’t understand why, please see my previous post on my conversation with Rackspace Chairman Graham Weston:
http://smbitpros.com/2008/02/29/msp-or-var-the-words-we-use-are-important/
Inc. magazine has a ton of credibility [...]

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