Year: 2006

  • SAP Differentiating ISVs to Ease Burden on Resellers

    SAP Differentiating ISVs to Ease Burden on Resellers

    John Hazard

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    Business software maker SAP is certifying 80 percent of its 300-some ISV Business One Solutions to ease the decision-making process for resellers. SAP is testing and qualifying the applications built by ISVs on its Business One platform as integrated with the platform’s SDK, to give VARs and users a higher degree of confidence in making… Read more

  • Oracle’s Support for Red Hat Linux Raises Questions

    Oracle’s Support for Red Hat Linux Raises Questions

    Renee Boucher Ferguson

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    SAN FRANCISCO—While Oracle is pitching its support for Red Hat Linux as a way to broaden the market for Linux adoption—and indeed that may well be the outcome—there is no shortage of controversy surrounding Oracle’s move to take on Red Hat. The issues: Though the Linux code is open source, Oracle does not have direct… Read more

  • Capgemini to Buy Kanbay for U.S. Finance Services Presence

    Channel Insider Staff

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    PARIS—IT consultancy Capgemini is buying technology services group Kanbay International for $1.25 billion to accelerate its growth in India and bolster its position in finance consulting and in North America. Capgemini, Europe’s largest IT consultancy, said on Thursday that the acquisition of U.S.-listed Kanbay would boost its earnings and margins. “With this deal we will… Read more

  • Avnet First-Quarter Profit Rises

    Avnet First-Quarter Profit Rises

    Channel Insider Staff

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    NEW YORK – Avnet Inc., a distributor of computer products and electronics components, on Thursday said quarterly profit rose, fueled by electronics marketing sales in Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Net income increased to $64.1 million, or 44 cents a share, for its fiscal first quarter ended Sept. 30, from $24.9 million, or 17… Read more

  • HP Must Choose Wisely When Replacing Thompson

    HP Must Choose Wisely When Replacing Thompson

    Pedro Pereira

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    As if Hewlett-Packard didn’t have enough on its hands with boardroom scandals, the company is now searching for a new channel chief. John Thompson, the highly regarded head of the vendor’s North America channel operations, is leaving the post for a new job at HP. HP, of Palo Alto, Calif., faces the significant challenge of… Read more

  • Bell Micro Adds Niksun, Second Vendor of Security Push

    Bell Micro Adds Niksun, Second Vendor of Security Push

    John Hazard

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    Distributor Bell Microproducts announced Niksun, a network security vendor, and the second security component as part of a quarter-long security awareness initiative. The deal enables Bell Micro to provide its resellers with Niksun’s full portfolio of security, forensics, compliance, network-to-application availability and performance solutions. Niksun, of Monmouth Junction, N.J., provides a TiVo-like recording capability, the… Read more