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OnForce: Prices Stabilizing, Installation Work Orders Climb
Online IT services marketplace OnForce says that price stabilization and a rise in installation work in the most recent quarter could indicate positive changes in the economy. The change comes after price erosion punctuated previous quarters. “We’ve started to see pricing stabilize for the second quarter in a row,” says Maria Battaglia, senior vice president…
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Dell Expects Windows 7 to Boost PC Sales in 2010
(Reuters) – Demand for computers from large companies is likely to pick up by as soon as mid-2010 as a result of Microsoft’s launch this week of its Windows 7 operating system, a senior Dell executive said on Wednesday. Dell was also looking to the services capability and virtualization software sectors for future acquisition possibilities,…
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Outsourcing Poised to Recover?
While outsourcing may look as if it got a big boost in the third quarter, with total contract value 21 percent higher over Q2 and 40 percent higher year over year, a closer look reveals another trend may be responsible for the spike. Sourcing data and advisory giant TPI, which acts as a matchmaker between…
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Windows 7 Deployment Sparks Optimism
Even though some channel partners remain skeptical about the bounce they expect Windows 7 to provide to their sales numbers in the next year, a new study out by ITIC and Sunbelt Software shows that 60 percent of companies worldwide have made plans to deploy the new operating system, and 49 percent will do it…