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Bill Amelio
Lenovo President and CEO
Earlier this year, Lenovo President and CEO Bill Amelio told CMP Channel that he wanted the bulk of the vendor's "transactional" or non-enterprise business to go through the channel. Despite those good intentions, solution providers say channel conflict is rife.
In fact, CMP's recent Channel Best Seller report shows a precipitous drop in Purchase, N.Y.-based Lenovo's sales of both desktops and notebooks through U.S. distributors for the period January through June of this year. Can Amelio turn what some channel partners see as coal in their channel stockings in 2007 to diamonds in 2008? Only time will tell.
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