IBM hungry for more VARs
Las Vegas – IBM is planning a big increase in its partners around the world, but the Canadian arm is more interested in maintaining an even number of quality resellers and solution providers.
Partners relieved at RIM deal
Canadian company has to pay US$612 million for peace with opponent
Desktop Linux and the enterprise
This year will see at least three new desktop open source suites aimed at the businesses. But buyers still don’t see a need to replace Microsoft
Cisco extends channel program
A Masters specification has been added to the partner program to reward specialization and breadth of skill
In Goodwin’s hands
Cisco’s new channel czar outlines the opportunities with SONA and Linksys
Concept PCs
Personal computers and notebooks are breaking ground in style and concept with recent additions from Acer and Lenovo
managed service providers: A beacon to VARs?
The opportunity to remotely manage customers’ systems is a tempting service for many resellers
Making a referral
When a developer decided to get out of programming it asked an ex-employee to help a client, leading to a successful partnership between a VAR and a non-profit agency
Trends
CIOs in high demand Toronto — Nine per cent of chief information officers (CIOs) interviewed for the…
A young team takes to the field
Specialized consumables distributor Team Tek hopes to score against broadline competition
People
Microsoft Research hires Canadian Redmond, Wash. — Bill Buxton, a Toronto-based computer scientist and designer specializing in…
Locked addresses
New ways to get rid of useless spam and help improve doing business online
Technology 2.0 has gone amuck
The urge to label everything 2.0 is revising our perception of progress
Microsoft dealt leadership blows
The Canadian subsidiary looses its highest profile executive and its current president within days of each other
RIM hopes to bury patent dispute soon
Next month a judge will receive final written arguments in the four-year-old case