CRN Channel News


  • Prominent SP Executive was Head of HP's Enterpise Partner Council


    McDowell Leaves Forsythe In Wake Of Reorganization
    Don McDowell, vice president of server solutions at Forsythe Solutions resigns in the wake of a mangement shakeup at the Skokie, Ill.-based soution provider.
  • Oki Data Service Manages Network Printing Assets
    As managed services become more popular, organizations can now choose to have a third party manage their hardware, software, databases, backup operations and any number of other business functions. Oki Data recently got into the game with its Managed Services for printers"or, more specifically, any machine with a paper output. The service is available for all printers manufactured by major vendors, and can be resold through the channel.
  • Ingram Micro Ups Income, Acquires Nimax
    A day after the world largest IT distributor made a major acquisition to expand its product line, Ingram Micro beat Wall Street's forecast with strong second quarter earnings.
  • FTC Settles With Pop Up Ad Company
    A San Diego company has agreed to stop bombarding computer users with Internet pop-up ads to advertise its ad-blocking software, avoiding a court battle with the Federal Trade Commission.
  • Toshiba Narrows Losses In First Quarter
    Toshiba reported a narrower loss for the first fiscal quarter on Friday on strong sales of semiconductors and personal computers and raised its forecast for the first half of the year.
  • Appelbaum Leaves Tech Data
    Roy Appelbaum has resigned as vice president of components, supplies and media product marketing at distributor Tech Data.
  • Barrett Talks Tough To Intel
    Intel CEO Craig Barrett this week collectively took his employees to the woodshed, chastising them in a companywide memo for a spate of recent chip production glitches and exhorting them to move quickly to fix the problems.
  • EDS Posts Q2 Pro Forma Loss of $16 Million
    One day after Plano, Texas-based EDS (No. 2 on the VARBusiness 500) slashed its dividend by two-thirds to conserve cash, and two weeks after credit-rating agency Moody's downgraded its senior unsecured notes to junk status, the integration giant reported a second-quarter pro forma loss of $16 million, or 3 cents per share, with sales up 4 percent to $5.24 billion.

  • Plans to file more than 3,000 patents in fiscal 2005


    Microsoft Takes On IBM For Title Of Patent Leader
    Microsoft plans to go after IBM for patent leadership in the United States, according to Microsoft founder and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates.
  • Intel CEO Warns Workers About Late Products
    Intel CEO Craig Barrett has called on employees to focus on "actions and attitudes" to halt a string of product delays and manufacturing problems that have frustrated the world's largest chip maker, according to a Reuters report.
  • Oracle Sets "Rules of Engagement" For Partners
    Oracle is on the stump this week, circulating a fresh list of field sales "rules of engagement" to North American channel partners -- an attempt, officials say, to clarify how solution providers work with the software giant and can avoid conflict with its mammoth direct sales force.
  • AMD Unleashes Sempron CPU
    AMD today rolled out its new Sempron processor, aiming at the so-called "value segment" of the market where OEM and white-box systems sell in the range of $399 to $499.
  • Microsoft Delays Three Windows Upgrades
    As it preps Windows XP Service Pack 2 for a belated release to manufacturing in August, Microsoft announced it will also slip the release of Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 and 64-bit Extended Systems versions until the first half of 2005.

  • As many as 4,000 VARs eligible for financing, up from 400


    HP Revamps Solution Provider Financing Initiatives
    Hewlett-Packard Tuesday said it has revamped its channel financing initiatives into a single program aimed at increasing the number of solution providers participating by as much as 10 times from 400 to as many as 4,000 partners.