Toshiba Turning Into a VAR?

buyers deals on several products outside the company brand, including Hewlett-Packard printers, NEC monitors, and a variety of smaller items from Belkin, Kingston, 3Com and others. Is it part of a new strategy to encroach on the reseller space? We called Toshiba America Information Systems to find out, and a representative there told us the practice is not entirely new, because the catalog has included third-party products since the beginning of last year. That said, "It's fair to say the number of third-party products has increased as each catalog is put out," the rep acknowledged. So the answer to our question seems to be, "Yes, but we're doing it very slowly."