Recent Articles
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Sage Software Cleans House
Taylor Macdonald, chief channel and strategy officer for Sage Software, stepped down Oct. 11 as part of an almost wholesale purge of the company’s North American executive staff. Macdonald’s position has been eliminated as Sage Group restructures its management. Also out are Sage Software CEO Ron Verni, Chief Financial Officer Jim Eckstaedt, and Chief Technology…
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BEA to Oracle: No Thanks
The board of directors of BEA Systems has declined Oracle’s offer to acquire the company at $17 per share, saying the bid “significantly undervalues” BEA, according to a report on MarketWatch.com. Oracle announced its intent to acquire BEA earlier in the day on Oct. 12. BEA’s board had sent a letter to Oracle Oct. 11…
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Project Managers, at $84K, Are Best-Paid IT Consultants
As an IT consultant, do you know how much you should be making? This depends, of course, on many variables that are not always easily gauged: experience, skills, industry, education, size and location of company. PayScale, Inc. has created a business model based on providing potential employees with the data needed to negotiate the best…
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Vembu Launches Aggressive Recruitment Drive
Online backup vendor Vembu has signed its 400th partner and is looking to more than quadruple this number within the next year. The firm, which works with service providers selling to SMBs, said 70 percent of its partners are in the United States with the remainder predominantly in Europe. Lakshmanan Narayan, president of Vembu, said,…
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CDW Reports Strong Third Quarter Sales
CDW said sales for the third quarter of 2007 were $2.1 billion compared to $1.7 billion in the third quarter of 2006, an increase of 21.8 percent. Average daily sales for the Vernon Hills, Ill., company in the third quarter of 2007 were $33.6 million compared to $27.6 million in the third quarter of 2006,…
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Unified Communications Will Create Both Opportunity and Peril
Starting next week Microsoft will be banging the drum in earnest about the value of unified communications within the context of Microsoft Office. This push by Microsoft should be welcomed by the channel primarily for two reasons. The first is that it creates an application that has enough gravitas in terms of increasing productivity of…
