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HP/EDS Deal: Upside for Big Partners, Smaller VARs Unaffected
Will Hewlett-Packard’s planned acquisition of outsourcing IT services giant EDS impact HP’s channel operations? VARs around the country expressed no concern whatsoever that the deal would hurt their companies, and some saw a potential upside to the deal. That’s because EDS tends to work in very large enterprise accounts – ones where channel partners normally…
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Fujitsu, OnStor Take Swipe At NetApp
Network Appliance might want to prepare for a brawl. Fujitsu’s strategic alliance with OnStor, announced today, will allow the vendor to sell OnStor’s Bobcat NAS Gateway with its own Eternus storage products. Fujitsu and OnStor say the partnership will help wean customers from the pricey licensing and lengthy contracts of market leaders NetApp and EMC…
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HP Stacks Up to IBM
Hewlett-Packard Co is close to a deal to acquire Electronic Data Systems Corp for between $12 billion and $13 billion, according to a source familiar with the matter. Shares of EDS jumped 27 percent on the news, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, while HP shares slid 2.5 percent. Both stocks were halted, news…
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HP Deal for EDS Would be a Mixed Bag for the Channel
The proposed merger between Hewlett-Packard and EDS is going to give just about every Hewlett-Packard channel partner in the world cause for pause. HP has been trying to build up its IT services business for the past few years. But in terms of its total size, HP’s efforts to drum up services business wasn’t much…