Top 10 Vendors Most Likely to Compromise Their Channels

No vendor program is perfect and every vendor has incidents of violating their boundaries with channel partners, but the recession is presenting extraordinary temptation to curtail channel efforts in favor of preserving direct revenues and profits. In the Channel Insider 2009 Market Pulse survey, we asked solution providers which vendors were most likely to compromise their partners and channels to preserve their revenues and margins during the recession. The following are the top 10, as ranked by Channel Insider readers.