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HP/EDS Deal: Upside for Big Partners, Smaller VARs Unaffected
Will Hewlett-Packard’s planned acquisition of outsourcing IT services giant EDS impact HP’s channel operations? VARs around the country expressed no concern whatsoever that the deal would hurt their companies, and some saw a potential upside to the deal. That’s because EDS tends to work in very large enterprise accounts – ones where channel partners normally…
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HP Stacks Up to IBM
Hewlett-Packard Co is close to a deal to acquire Electronic Data Systems Corp for between $12 billion and $13 billion, according to a source familiar with the matter. Shares of EDS jumped 27 percent on the news, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, while HP shares slid 2.5 percent. Both stocks were halted, news…
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HP Deal for EDS Would be a Mixed Bag for the Channel
The proposed merger between Hewlett-Packard and EDS is going to give just about every Hewlett-Packard channel partner in the world cause for pause. HP has been trying to build up its IT services business for the past few years. But in terms of its total size, HP’s efforts to drum up services business wasn’t much…
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Dell: The Channel`s New Darling?
Surprised? I can’t really say I am. Though it may seem even shocking that Dell did so well in the Channel Insider Products of the Year awards, snagging the top spot in the desktop and notebook categories, it actually makes a lot of sense. Yes, the channel doth protest too much about Dell, but as…
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2008 Channel Insider Product of the Year Awards
The moment that everyone in the channel has been waiting for has arrived. After weeks of deliberation and vote tallying we proudly unveil the winners of our 2008 Channel Insider Product of the Year Awards. With 27 products sets, ranging from power management to MFPs, and network security to software as a service, our awards…
