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  • Ingram Micro, MaintenanceNet Aim to Speed Maintenance Service Quotes

    Ingram Micro, MaintenanceNet Aim to Speed Maintenance Service Quotes

    Jessica Davis

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    Looking to speed up maintenance service contract renewals for VARs so revenue can be recorded sooner, MaintenanceNet has launched an online self-service system as a new component to Ingram Micro’s Reseller Services Portal. Santa Ana, Calif.-based IT distributor Ingram Micro introduced the RSP (Reseller Services Portal) just under a year ago to help resellers and… Read more

  • Microsoft to Invest in Channel, Verticals through OEM, Code Acquisition Deals

    Microsoft to Invest in Channel, Verticals through OEM, Code Acquisition Deals

    Renee Boucher Ferguson

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    SAN DIEGO—During this second day of Convergence, Microsoft’s annual Dynamics user conference, the company announced its intent to invest in five industries—manufacturing, distribution, retail, services and public sector—through OEM deals, code acquisitions and spending on the partner network. Taking its first step in this plan, Microsoft also announced code acquisition from eBECS. A Chesterfield, England-based… Read more

  • How Not to Introduce Your Channel Chief

    How Not to Introduce Your Channel Chief

    Pedro Pereira

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    Adrian who? That pretty much summarizes how channel partners have reacted to Hewlett-Packard’s appointment of Adrian Jones as its new channel chief. And who can blame them? Few partners have ever heard of the man, who comes to HP from storage vendor McData, and HP seemed to go out of its way to keep the… Read more

  • Report: POS Market to Approach $6 Billion This Year

    Report: POS Market to Approach $6 Billion This Year

    Evan Schuman

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    A report from the IHL Consulting Group found that there has been an 8 percent increase in the size of the point-of-sale market, which isn’t bad for a market that traditionally increased by about 4 percent. Still, it’s a healthy drop from the double-digit growth of recent years. The North American POS market report released… Read more

  • IBM Isn’t Opposed to Oracle Linux

    IBM Isn’t Opposed to Oracle Linux

    Steven Vaughan-Nichols

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    Recent news stories have stated that IBM was refusing to support Oracle Linux. That’s not true. Further investigation has shown there was little follow-up on the original Reuters story, and that some of the confusion came because the story didn’t put IBM’s comments into the proper context. Starting in October, Oracle began shipping its own… Read more

  • Oracle Buyout of Hyperion to Hasten BI Sector Consolidation

    Oracle Buyout of Hyperion to Hasten BI Sector Consolidation

    John Pallatto

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    Oracle’s $3.3 billion acquisition of Hyperion Solutions, a specialist in the field of corporate performance management, has set the fox among the chickens in the broader business intelligence market. This has long been a relatively quiet and sometimes prosperous sector of the enterprise software market, where the corporate acquisitions have been far less costly and… Read more