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HP Offers Debian Support for its Servers
HP and Debian Linux may not sound like an obvious pairing, but on August 14 at LinuxWorld in San Francisco, HP announced that it has increased its Linux distribution support options for customers and will now support Debian Linux. Specifically, HP will be supporting Debian Linux across its HP ProLiant and HP BladeSystem server lines.…
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Access Distribution Leaves Partners Wanting More
John Varel appears to speak for most of the solution providers that do business with Access Distribution. “I wish they carried more,” said Varel, chief executive officer of FusionStorm, San Francisco. Access Distribution, a General Electric company based in Westminster, Colo., is a specialty distributor with a strong focus on Sun Microsystems. The company, which…
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Access Reorg Creates Units for Mature and Emerging Technologies
GE’s Access Distribution announced Aug. 14 it had reorganized into separate business units for Mature and Emerging Technologies to take solutions in those categories to market according to their different needs. The Emerging Technologies group will help vendors new to indirect distribution or established vendors with a technology new to the market route, to “turn…
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Oracle Pulls More Partners into Linux Configurations Effort
Oracle is hooking more partners into its validated Linux configurations program in its efforts to cover the entire stack of components its customers might encounter when installing the open-source operating system, the company announced at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo on Aug. 16. The Oracle Validated Configurations effort now will include Brocade, Cisco Systems and…
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Ingram’s IMSN to Run on Autotask
Ingram Micro Services Network, distributor Ingram Micro’s labor service provider community, will use Autotask to manage and automate the group’s partnering and dispatching programs, both companies announced Aug. 14. Beginning Oct. 1, IMSN will use a specially designed version of Autotask called IMOnsite as its project management application to administer and dispatch across the 700-member…
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Websense Partner Program Is ‘Channel 101’
On its continued march to a full channel program, Internet filtering vendor Websense unveiled the makings of a new partner program Aug. 14, employing what channel chief David Roberts calls “Channel 101.” The program, rolling out over the next year, includes a core of the channel basics and fixes the vendor had been lacking, including…
