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Jobs to go at UK mobile phone distributor
News The Slough-based mobile phone distributor warned on Thursday that it expected to record a loss for the last financial year. An "significant" number of staff at European Telecom are to lose their jobs because of the slowdown in the mobile phone sector.
[March 15, 2001, 8:53]
Microsoft teams up with Linux distributor Xandros
News Microsoft and Linux distributor Xandros announced on Monday a technical and legal collaboration, the latest step in the software giant's ongoing programme to partner with open-source companies. According to the two companies, over the next five...
[June 4, 2007, 16:52]
PC DOCS buys UK distributor Quintec
News Quintec, a Microsoft Solutions Provider Partner, has sold about 20,000 licences to over 300 sites since 1993 and has been the exclusive country distributor for PC DOCS' flagship DOCS Open since 1994. Quintec also works in integrating workflow...
[July 22, 1996, 17:05]
Microsoft picks Ideal distributor
News Microsoft launched the scheme to reward successful OEM distributors of its products. The competition judges factors such as sales performance against business plans and forecasts, customer satisfaction and product knowledge.
[September 27, 1996, 16:58]
UK hardware distributor hit by downturn
News IT hardware reseller Computacenter saw its share price drop sharply on Wednesday morning amid fears that it might perform badly in the second half of 2001. Releasing its interim results the company announced that although profits for the first half...
[August 15, 2001, 16:03]
Merisel Europe sold in distribution mega-deal
News The European division of distribution giant Merisel was today bought by German distributor CHS Electronics in as deal worth about $160 million. This makes us the largest distributor in Germany and France and the second largest in the UK, ahead of...
[August 30, 1996, 16:01]
Turbolinux to expand across Asia
News Far-east Linux distributor Turbolinux is looking to target the Indian market after achieving profitability in Japan and China. The Linux distribution is already available in India via a local distributor, but there is an issue with the provision of...
[March 21, 2005, 14:25]
Mandrake Linux download policy angers club members
News Days after MandrakeSoft launched a controversial "club" to boost its bottom line, the Linux distributor has angered many in its user community by changing the rules of the Mandrake Club programme. MandrakeSoft finalised version 8.2 of Mandrake...
[March 22, 2002, 13:39]
SuSE seals Linux support deal with Sun
News German Linux distributor SuSE Linux said on Thursday that Sun Microsystems has agreed to distribute and support the company's Enterprise Server 8, joining several other major system vendors, including IBM, HP, SAP and Oracle.
[July 31, 2003, 17:50]
Tech Data makes £140m bid for Azlan
News Network distributor Tech Data is to buy the long-established European network distributor Azlan. The bid, for £140m, is expected to be approved by Azlan shareholders, and could be complete by the end of March.
[February 7, 2003, 13:16]
Microsoft and Turbolinux forge compatibility pact
News Microsoft has this week taken steps to further its relationship with open-source distributor Turbolinux, under a new agreement attempting to foster ease of use between mixed Windows- and Linux-based devices.
[October 24, 2007, 15:40]
GeForce4 specs leak online
News A computer products distributor has listed a range of graphics cards based on Nvidia's GeForce4 GPU (graphics processing unit), providing the most solid information yet on Nvidia's plans. The details were leaked when Morex, a French distributor...
[January 17, 2002, 13:57]
Red Hat defends controversial patent applications
News Linux distributor Red Hat has published a clarification of its policy on software patents, defending itself against criticism of the company's patents policy. Red Hat, which has the biggest market share of any Linux distributor, came under fire...
[May 31, 2002, 16:57]
MandrakeSoft clears up downloads confusion
News Linux distributor MandrakeSoft officially announced the availability of StarOffice 6.0 for Mandrake Club members on Monday, making it the first major Linux distributor to offer the final version of the office suite to its users.
[March 26, 2002, 12:43]
UK firm sues Microsoft for libel
News Software distributor ITAC (UK) has started libel proceedings against Microsoft in the UK High Court after the software giant said it had traded with a "rogue distributor". Two weeks ago, Microsoft launched a civil case against the Manchester-based...
[February 8, 2005, 16:15]
Apple increases distribution bandwidth
News When it brought on Tech Data last week as its third US wholesale distributor, Apple Computer expanded its channel sales capabilities for the first time in more than two years. We wanted to keep good velocity going through the tubes, and adding...
[March 21, 2000, 14:21]
IBM snares bigger bite of storage
News A food distributor and a provider of real estate data have turned to IBM for data storage gear, showing signs of Big Blue's growing momentum in the market. Earlier this month, IBM said food distributor J&B Group had chosen its FastT storage devices...
[February 20, 2004, 9:10]
Intel to cut PII-333 price
News According to one UK distributor, this could be to make way for the PII Pentium II Dechutes Slot 1, 350 and 400 MHz, 512Kb L2 chips, which are due imminently. The market is dire at the moment," said the distributor, who added that Intel could make...
[March 3, 1998, 11:06]
New SuSE Linux to debut next month
News Linux distributor SuSE on Tuesday said it plans to ship a new release of its desktop operating system next month. The company is the largest Linux distributor in Europe. SuSE Linux 9.0 adds support for Advanced Micro Devices' 64-bit Athlon...
[September 30, 2003, 14:20]
Guy Kewney's Diary
News Startling news from a distributor in Germany. But my distributor friend says he's gone. It seems my German distributor believes that he knows why Jurgen resigned. The head of IBM's PC company, Jurgen Renz, has vanished.
[March 14, 1998, 6:00]
