The VARBusiness Annual Report CardWelcome to VARBusiness' 2002 Annual Report Card, the definitive benchmark of partner satisfaction. This year, more than 4,500 technology solution providers participating in 67 vendor programs across 15 product and service categories were surveyed. Click here to see how your favorite--and least favorite--vendors fared.![]() Channel Executive of the Year: Seelinger Stands Out For the first time, VARBusiness has selected a channel executive of the year, someone who exemplifies what the role of business-partner liaison is. This year, Symantec's Allyson Seelinger takes the honors. See what she's done--and where she's going. Editor's Letter: ARC Exposes Vendors in Need of Real Help BEA, Sun, Avaya, Oracle, HP and Microsoft all take a pounding in this year's survey. Top Channel Managers at Leading Vendors Every top vendor in the ARC survey has demonstrated excellence in channel/partner management. Here are those channel advocates, including their titles, job descriptions and the categories in which their companies won. The Story Behind Macromedia's Success Macromedia has pulled out the stops for its Alliance partners, and effort has paid off: In the 2002 VARBusiness Annual Report Card (ARC) survey, solution providers gave Macromedia top marks in the Web & Internet applications category, and it also took first place in the application development & deployment tools category. But will its newly integrated Macromedia MX portfolio attract new VARs? HP-UX Is At the Top of Its Class Overcoming many challenges presented by the merger with Compaq, HP-UX managed to take first place in the enterprise operating platforms category. Find out how HP stole the thunder from Novell, Microsoft, Sun and Caldera/The SCO Group. NEC-Mitsubishi: Comeback Player of 2002 NEC-Mitsubishi went from last place in 2001 to first place this year. And it credits the channel for its success. |
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