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Soft Stock Markets Could Spark Vendor Consolidation Wave
A new wave of vendor consolidation could shore up struggling companies, foster innovation and help VARs drive new technology to customers even as the rest of the economy suffers. Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison made waves last week when he said the slumping economy created a “buyer’s market” that the software giant could leverage to…
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One-time IBM Channel Executive Thomas Jarosh Dies at 55
One-time IBM channel executive Thomas J. Jarosh, who most recently served as vice president of operations in the IBM Systems and Technology Group, passed away Oct. 17, 2008. He was 55. Jarosh, a lifelong IBM employee, served as a channel executive for IBM in the 1990s. He was named vice president of channel strategy and…
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Matchmaking in the Channel
One of the things that came out at the end of the annual Symantec partner conference last week was an initiative under which the security and storage software vendor plans to hook up solution providers that have complementary skills sets. The basic idea is that Symantec will give solution providers that identify deals a…
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Toshiba Comes to SanDisk’s Rescue
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Toshiba Corp is buying $1 billion worth of equipment from joint venture partner SanDisk Corp, shoring up the California-based firm as it faces an unwanted takeover bid from South Korean rival Samsung. SanDisk shares have halved in value this year in the face of a worldwide glut in chips, but analysts…
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Survey Finds Optimism Among Tech Executives
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Despite turmoil in global markets, two-thirds of senior technology industry executives polled in a new survey say the economic slowdown will not hurt them as badly as the bursting of the tech bubble in 2000. However, more than three-quarters of respondents say their business has been impacted by the financial crisis,…