Recent Articles
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ComputerRepair.com Gets New Image—and New Name
ComputerRepair.com—the online marketplace for IT services that has assembled a network of 12,000 service providers, mostly VARs, in the last year—now has a new name: OnForce. The company had been searching for a new identity for several months as its function grew beyond that of a marketplace for break/fix services, said Jeffrey Leventhal, president and…
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Everest Launches New Channel for New Targets
Everest Software Inc. this week re-established its channel program with new resources to support partners focusing on larger SMB customers in the distribution and retail industries. The new channel programs will support a new breed of partner able to deliver and support Everest’s business process management line in businesses with five to 100 seats, a…
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SAP Partner Roster Grows in Vertical Market Push
After launching a channel initiative in 2005 to push its MySAP and Business One software into the small and midsize enterprise market, SAP AG added 590 new partners—an increase of 49 percent—and 100 new solutions in the first three quarters of that year. The ERP (enterprise resource planning) and supply chain giant has made it…
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Symantec Caught in Norton ‘Rootkit’ Flap
Symantec Corp. has fessed up to using a rootkit-type feature in Norton SystemWorks that could provide the perfect hiding place for attackers to place malicious files on computers. The anti-virus vendor acknowledged that it was deliberately hiding a directory from Windows APIs as a feature to stop customers from accidentally deleting files but, prompted by…
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When Will Google Be Channel-Ready?
Not too many companies can boast of having a name that by force of popularity has become a verb. To me “Google” still sounds like something you’d say when tickling a baby’s chin, but the Internet search engine company’s brand recognition is undeniable. The company’s stock appears certain to hit the $500-per-share mark soon while…
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McAfee President Quits
Anti-virus security vendor McAfee Inc. announced Tuesday the sudden departure of its president, Gene Hodges. Hodges, an 11-year McAfee veteran who was responsible for the company’s technology development, strategy and execution worldwide, has resigned to take the reins of access control vendor Websense Inc. McAfee did not identify a replacement for Hodges. In a brief…
