Recent Articles
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IBM’s Channel Chief Retires
Donn Atkins, IBM’s channel chief, announced his retirement on Oct. 5 after two years in the post and nearly 30 years with Big Blue. Atkins was succeeded as general manager for IBM Global Business Partners by Ravindra “Ravi” Marwaha, who is returning to IBM from Lenovo Group, where he had been senior vice president of…
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Dunn, 4 Others Charged in HP Scandal
The next stop for Patricia Dunn and four others involved in the controversy surrounding Hewlett-Packard’s hunt for a news leak may be a California courtroom. A week after appearing before a Congressional subcommittee in Washington, Dunn, the former chairwoman of HP’s board of directors, was indicted by the California State Attorney General’s office Oct. 4…
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Seven Linux Distros Battle for an Old ThinkPad
Like most companies, my employer has a stash of old, “obsolete” PCs and laptops that won’t run the latest versions of Windows worth a darn. Naturally, this represents a great source of systems for testing the latest Linux distributions. I thought it would be interesting to find out which modern Linux distro made the best…
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AMD Starts New Partner Program
Advanced Micro Devices, the world’s second-largest producer of microprocessors, announced that it has started a new partner program that will test and validate products made with the company’s AMD64 technology. The AMD Validated Solutions program was formally launched on Oct. 2 and company officers talked about the program extensively at the IT Channel Vision conference…
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Channel Says It’s Confident About State of Business
As the fourth quarter kicks off, IT channel executives say they are optimistic that the overall positive trends they have seen so far in 2006 will continue through the end of the year and beyond. Customers, particularly in the small and midsize business space, have been fueling channel sales growth with their technology purchases, and…
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Dell Shows Up at Channel Event
Dell made a showing at Gartner’s IT ChannelVision this week in Phoenix, to the chagrin of some VARs in attendance. Dell representatives present at the show said they were there to remind VARs that Dell is an option and that there is a place for the channel within Dell—Dell’s Solution Provider Direct program—but most VARs…
