HIGH: June 2009: Help Is On the Way
When Cisco Partner Summit 2009 kicked off in Boston, solution providers were less than a year into a business-squeezing economic downturn, and much of the conversation in the channel was shifting toward how much of a role vendors should play in ballasting their partners. Cisco went open-arms to its partner base, offering what was then described as a partner stimulus package -- providing VIP program enhancements, a new managed services channel program or limited lifetime warranties to spur Catalyst switch sales -- and expanded marketing support.
Goodwin talked up targeted Cisco efforts like Navigate to Accelerate and Cisco's Core Accelerator program, all of which were warmly received.
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