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What Will Dell/Perot Mean to Dell Reseller Channel Partners?
Dell’s acquisition of Perot Systems won’t have a major impact on Dell’s reseller channel partners in its PartnerDirect program. That’s according to Greg Davis, Dell’s global channel chief, who was quick to issue a statement of his own to reassure the company’s channel partners in the wake of Dell’s announcement of the $3.9 billion acquisition…
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AMD Serves Up New Platform
If one were to characterize the competition between Intel and AMD as a baseball game, then there have been few homeruns — Centrino (Banias) and Opteron/Athlon 64 (Hammer) — and a lot of base hits that provide either parity or a small advantage. According to a new report from iSuppli Corp., Intel inched ahead last…
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Dell to Acquire Perot Systems for $3.9 Billion
(Reuters) – Dell Inc said it had struck a deal to acquire computer services maker Perot Systems Corp in a cash transaction the personal computer maker valued at about $3.9 billion. Dell, which had indicated its intention to step up acquisitions, said it would launch a tender offer to acquire all of the outstanding Class…
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Westcon Group Creates Comstor Worldwide to Sell Cisco Gear
Looking to sharpen its focus for Cisco products and customers, specialty networking distributor Westcon Group says that Cisco products will now be sold worldwide through the Comstor brand widely known for Cisco sales – creating a Comstor Worldwide organization. The change is expected to enable partners to leverage more resources, says longtime Comstor executive Bill…
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Storage Specialist Xiotech Snags $10 Million in Financing
Just five months after it laid off about 14 percent of its workforce, Eden Prairie, Minn.-based Xiotech hopes to accelerate its storage networking business out of the recession with a new round of $10 million in financing that it says will help it build out new product offerings for release in early 2010. A specialist…
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Xerox Fires Back on Managed Print Services
Xerox says just because HP has created a big hoopla around managed print services with its host of product, alliance and MPS announcements this week doesn’t mean they are the best choice for all customers or maybe even any customers. It’s not surprising to hear Xerox take such a stance. After all, Xerox is a…