ShadowRAM: April 26, 2004

Cuban is also reportedly working on his own reality TV show, "The Benefactor," for ABC, in which he will give away a million clams, just,as one reporter put it,because he can.

Cuban ain't alone. One of the finer supermarket tabloids reports that the first former Mrs. Trump is so jealous of her ex's success, she's planning her own reality show to go head to head with Trump's. I may have to invest in a TiVo to track all this.

It's been a good couple of weeks for the channel. VAR (and not Oracle CEO) Larry Ellison plucked Barry Bonds' 660th home run ball out of the chilly San Francisco Bay. And then,gott im himmel!,returned it to Barry! With absolutely no recompense. One can only dream about the margin on that multimillion-dollar ball. And this after his dive ruined his cell phone?!

Ellison is a retired firefighter who went to work for a small computer sales company. Having the same name as a multibillionaire software plutocrat has its advantages.

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"When I say Larry Ellison is calling, they always return my calls," Ellison told The San Francisco Chronicle.

Word is that Juniper Networks, which just snapped up NetScreen, is shopping for a head of channels.

The mystery of Dan Vertrees' new role at Hewlett-Packard appears to be clearing up. The VP and GM of HP's Enterprise Partners Group, Americas, will become VP of alliances, working with ISVs and integrators in the Americas and will be part of the Customer Solutions Group run by Peter Blackmore.

Rumblings out of Sun Microsystems indicate that Marissa Peterson, who took on the executive VP of services slot when Pat Sueltz left suddenly last month, won't have that job for long. Sources say Peterson is a placeholder and a permanent appointment will come soon.

Synnex Prez Bob Huang waited two decades to take his company public and ring the NYSE Opening Bell last week. And he almost had to wait longer. His non-stop flight from California had to make an emergency landing in Chicago. Then his connection was delayed due to still more mechanical problems. When the weary Huang finally boarded a third plane, someone else was in his seat. Despite the travails, Huang made it to the Big Apple about 9 p.m., a tad late for a dinner in his honor but in plenty of time to ring the bell the next day.

Be careful out there. Scammers are calling solution providers using a special service for people with hearing problems, placing orders and paying for them,or not,with bogus credit cards. One reader was bilked out of $14K.