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September 23, 2009  9:36 PM

Big changes for spawn of Perot



Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow, Dell, EDS, H. Ross Perot, Hewlett-Packard, HP, IT channel products and technologies, Perot Systems

Wow.  it was quite a week for the IT brainchildren of H. Ross Perot. On Monday, Dell announces a $3.9 billion buyout of Perot Systems to bulk up its enterprise IT services against nemesis Hewlett...

May 5, 2009  3:40 PM

EMC fights Donatelli departure tooth and nail



Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow, EMC, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Noncompete agreements

EMC isn't taking the defection of David Donatelli to Hewlett Packard lying down. In fact it's suing to put the kibosh on the move and a


April 21, 2009  3:09 AM

Top five questions about Sun-Oracle



Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, IT channel products and technologies, Lotus, Oracle, Scott McNealy, Storage, Sun Microsystems

Here's a completely non-scientific list of my top five questions arising from Oracle's $7.4 billion buy out of Sun Microsystems. 5: How could it have been surprising that Oracle was the white...


April 6, 2009  1:14 AM

Conglomeration conga



Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow, Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, HP, IBM, IT channel products and technologies, M&A, Oracle, Sun, Virtual Iron

 

Whether Sun and IBM ever actually do tie the knot, the M&A craziness will continue....


January 28, 2009  12:10 PM

Mass guv goes west in search of IT jobs



Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft

Massachusetts governor, and Friend Of Barack, Deval Patrick is heading to high-tech hubs in Seattle, Portland, and Silicon Valley to lobby for more IT jobs for the commonwealth.


January 23, 2009  11:02 AM

HP taps new SMB channel lead



Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow, Channel partner programs, Hewlett-Packard

Meaghan Kelly will lead HP's SMB channel sales efforts in the Americas starting February 1, the company said Thursday. Continued »


December 1, 2008  3:05 PM

Black Friday turns bloody



Posted by: badarrow
Authors, Barbara Darrow, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Information technology services, Microsoft, News

Whoa. Retailers can't catch a break this year. First of all there's this little thing called a recession, which we're now officially in,  according to the National Bureau of Economic Research, otherwise known as NBER. (Thanks for the heads up...


November 26, 2008  12:44 PM

CDW sees growth in government market



Posted by: Bcournoyer
Colin Steele, Hewlett-Packard, Servers and desktop hardware

Earlier this week I got to talk with Casey Jones, a field sales executive for CDW Government, about the channel opportunities in the government market -- expected to be one of the hottest verticals in...


November 18, 2008  11:37 AM

Vista-capable suit highlights PC power rifts



Posted by: badarrow
Authors, Barbara Darrow, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Microprocessors, Microsoft, Servers and desktop hardware, Vendor partner business issues

The class action suit filed over Microsoft's discredited "Vista Capable" hardware claims has brought to light quite the sordid saga. Continued »


October 2, 2008  12:43 PM

Dell: HP playing catch-up with LeftHand acquisition



Posted by: Bcournoyer
Colin Steele, Dell, Hewlett-Packard

There's an Oreo commercial that's been out for a few weeks now, where Venus and Serena Williams hold a press conference to announce they're joining some cookie-eating league. Then the camera pans over to Peyton and Eli...