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More than 300 IT executives and dozens of vendors met to talk about midmarket solutions at the Midsize Enterprise Summit.

ChannelWeb picked 15 common beliefs about Microsoft and gave channel partners the opportunity to explain why they're more fiction than fact.

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LATEST FEDERAL GOVERNMENT NEWS

IBM's Bob Samson, keynoting at the Everything Channel XChange Government Integrator Conference, challenges solution providers to be successful.

May 08, 2008

At Everything Channel's Government Integrator XChange, HP's public sector channel chief says CEO Mark Hurd has asked VARs to help win more government business.

May 08, 2008

Navy Commander Krik Lippold recounted how his ship was attacked by al Qaeda in 2000, imparting a lesson in courage to government solution providers.

May 07, 2008

War, recession politics and how they impact the public sector market will be topics discussed by some 120 solution providers attending next week's Government Integrator '08 XChange conference in Washington, D.C.

May 02, 2008

In four government agencies, e-mail records for about half of senior officials were not appropriately identified before filing, preventing easy and timely retrieval of groups of related records as well as individual records, Koontz wrote.

April 25, 2008

Clinton, McCain and Obama -- which presidential wannabe has the right stuff for the IT industry and who's just peddling vaporware?

April 21, 2008

The FCC has put together a plan that calls for wireless carriers to send text messages alerting the public to disasters, but governent agency in-fighting may lead to a disconnect.

April 10, 2008

IBM will continue to cooperate with the EPA's investigation of possible violations of the Procurement Integrity provisions of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act.

April 04, 2008

Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez told Congress his department will scrap plans to use the handheld computers.

April 04, 2008

The cycle of electoral politics, the steady increase of globalization and security needs are all part of the top trends VARs working with the federal government need to know about

April 02, 2008

While barriers to implimentation, such as security risks, still exist, the benefits of storing information in offsite data centers are spurring innovation, Google Enterprise's chief says.

April 01, 2008

Investigations by the EPA and U.S. Attorney's Office of possible violations of procurement regulations put IBM on "Excluded Parties List" for all U.S. government agencies.

April 01, 2008

Avnet says it wants to help VARs better navigate the public sector market with a new training program similar to its healthcare vertical.

April 01, 2008

New Jersey wants a third-party to look into e-voting discrepancies, but vendor Sequoia threatens legal action.

March 24, 2008

Desktop virtualization enables solution providers to change the kinds of conversations they're having with customers.

March 14, 2008

Microsoft chairman advises Congress to invest in schools, raise cap on H-1B visas and incentivize R&D to counter 'acute' shortage of brainpower.

March 14, 2008

The Transportation Security Association is looking at notebook bags that will be able to go through airport security without taking out the computer.

March 11, 2008

New program will offer a broad range of IT services to its aerospace, defense and North American public sector clients.

February 28, 2008

HP Partners gathered at the Americas Partner conference said the changes will eliminate partners that are not bonafide public sector VARs.

February 26, 2008

Help slay the dragon. That's Mark Hurd's rallying cry to solution providers attending Hewlett-Packard Co.'s Americas Partner Conference in Las Vegas this week. But HP solution providers have a big question for Hurd as well: What do I get in return if I make a greater commitment to HP?

February 25, 2008

The suit seeks unpaid overtime, retirement and 401(k) plan benefits credits for all current and former EDS salaried technical support employees.

February 19, 2008

The company says servers will help enable resellers to deliver the high-end storage and processing capabilities of blade servers to a wider range of users.

February 15, 2008

Linux Networx develops hardware and software for HPC solutions in the aerospace, automotive, government, heavy manufacturing, and oil and gas sectors.

February 14, 2008

Carahsoft's Pentaho pact shows open source momentum with the federal government.

February 12, 2008

Solution providers are preparing for a possible drop in enterprise network spending, as Goldman Sachs notes tough outlook.

February 06, 2008

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