Ingram Finds AOpen Door

Ingram Micro has signed a deal to carry AOpen barebones notebooks, motherboards and white-box components, according to the companies. <P> Ingram Micro joins D&H Distributing, Synnex and Tech Data as distributors of AOpen products in the United States. <P> "We are constantly looking to bring as many choices to our customers as possible," said Mike Beyersdoerfer, manager of component products at Ingram Micro. "Like any two companies looking at their distribution strategy and reach, we felt we could help each other." <P> The Santa Ana, Calif.-based distributor will also carry imaging products, multimedia/display cards, keyboards, mice, optical storage devices, monitors, and components, but its focus on AOpen will be on the barebones whitebook chassis, Beyersdoerfer said. <P> "We didn't have a real whitebook offering. We have the processors, the drives, the optics, but we didn't have the chassis. Now we can offer a complete whitebook solution to our customers," he said.