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  • Sage Launches New Midmarket Software Suite

    On the same day ERP vendor Sage unveiled the latest version of its midmarket solution suite, the company also debuted what it called a new “approach” to its midmarket business. In an effort to strengthen the company’s ability to meet the growing global needs of its midmarket customers, Sage established new international management structures and…

  • Microsoft, Intuit Target Small Business, QuickBooks Cloud Computing

    Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Intuit (NASDAQ:INTU) are teaming up to deliver Web-based applications to small business customers through the Intuit App Center, calling on their respective .NET and Intuit Partner Platform Developers to extend existing applications such as QuickBooks to make them more useful to small businesses. The two companies say that developers and channel partners…

  • Consistency: McAfee’s Next Channel Goal

    McAfee channel leaders Alex Thurber and Fernando Quintero spent much of this week rolling out strategic initiatives designed to increase partner sales and profitability. It’s been a week of communicating to partners what McAfee is putting behind what has been deemed “2010: The Year of the Channel.” None of these changes—incumbency protection, team sales, easier…

  • Oracle Scores EU Approval to Buy Sun

    (Reuters) – Oracle Corp won unconditional European Union approval on Thursday for its $7 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems, a month after offering public pledges to sooth regulatory concerns.The acquisition will reshape the high-tech landscape, with world No. 2 business software maker Oracle moving into the hardware business. Sun is the top player in the…

  • HP ‘Aggressively` Going After Dell`s SMB Customers

    SMBs—small and midsize businesses with fewer than 500 employees—will spend about $55 billion on technology products and services each year, and the lion’s share of that belongs to Dell. And that doesn’t sit well with rival Hewlett-Packard. HP officially unveiled SMB Exchange, a concentrated sales team that will target non-HP customers with special offers for…

  • NEC Offers VARs Piece of Digital Signage Ad Sales

    In its quest to squeeze more dollars from its digital signage hardware business, NEC late last year tapped into the lucrative market for digital signage advertising when it created a new network platform called Vukunet to bring advertisers and signage operators together. Today, NEC is bringing its partners into the fold. Specifically, the company is…

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