Melitta Brazil Facilitates Data Exchange Between Plants and Distributors and Reduces IT Costs by 60%
White Papers They improved communication among distributors using an online and up-to-date database. The Melitta Group, founded in Germany in 1908, manufactures and markets a wide variety of consumer products including foils and wraps, air cleaners and...
[July 20, 2007, 1:00]
United States Global Trade Association: Enterprise Software Evaluation for US Importers and Distributors
White Papers After careful review of the solutions listed one can conclude that each of these applications will fit the industry, however their choice of solution will vary depending on their specific areas of interest.
[June 26, 2009, 0:00]
Distributors stamp on Linux bugs
News Popular Linux distributor Red Hat issued a bug fix Wednesday that will stop users from printing pages they have no access to. The bug was discovered just two days ago. The speed with which Red Hat has produced the fix contradicts frequent...
[October 20, 1999, 15:58]
It's running late - but it's Linux
News But many distributors, developers and customers say they couldn't care less. It matters to folks like us who are in charge of packaging Linux," said Lonn Johnston, vice president of marketing with TurboLinux, one of the four primary Linux...
[May 3, 2000, 13:06]
IBM teams with Linux firms for Microsoft-free PCs
News IBM has launched its latest attack on Microsoft in the enterprise, forming an alliance with three top Linux distributors to promote Microsoft-free PCs around the world. The partnership is targeting specialised markets, such as government, finance...
[August 6, 2008, 12:21]
Novonyx strikes distribution deals
News Novell and Netscape hybrid Novonyx struck deals with four distributors today and outlined a plan for accrediting distributors and dealers to sell its Netscape Suitespot Servers for NetWare. More European-specific distributors are expected to be...
[November 12, 1997, 14:37]
CeBIT 2000: "Consumer" Linux from Finland
News On Thursday, a new Linux distribution "from the homeland of Linux" joined the already crowded variety of distributors jostling for the attention of computer users at the CeBIT show in Hannover. I think that all the Linux distributors work together...
[February 25, 2000, 10:26]
Invensys Automates Web Lead Routing With Salesforce
White Papers Invensys needed to manage customer information on 100,000 plants, across a global organization that includes 140 distributors. The company required strong security model to control access for third-party distributors.
[March 16, 2009, 6:36]
Level 3's strategy: Vision or folly?
News Is Level 3 Communications' new strategy to acquire software distributors ahead of its time, or a last-ditch effort to keep the company in business? That's what analysts are trying to determine following the network operator's recent acquisitions of...
[June 16, 2002, 7:32]
Openmoko ships Neo FreeRunner Linux phone
News Openmoko's Neo FreeRunner open-source handset has finally shipped to distributors, marking an attempt by the mobile Linux company to move towards the mass market. These key distributors have relationships that reach deeply into markets that can...
[June 26, 2008, 12:21]
UnitedLinux working on desktop distribution
News UnitedLinux, the joint software development effort by four Linux distributors, is working on a version of its software for desktop computers, according to executive Gregory Blepp. Blepp said that two additional Linux distributors were "waiting...
[October 15, 2002, 14:07]
Effective Inventory Analysis
White Papers Inventory is the largest and probably the most important asset of many distributors. If distributors do not have this money invested in the right amount of the right products, they cannot provide the service to customers necessary to be successful.
[April 25, 2005, 3:00]
Flat-screen iMacs starting to pile up
News That excess may be less severe at other stores and distributors, but it's clearly a troubling sign, analysts say. Retailers and distributors who had to wait weeks after the product's January introduction to get their hands on the desk lamp-shaped...
[June 26, 2002, 16:07]
Case Study: Sales Force Automation With PocketPC
White Papers A Global 2000 crop protection company needed a faster and more efficient way of collecting sales related information from their national network of distributors. The existing processes involved biweekly visits to agricultural chemical distributors...
[July 13, 2006, 0:00]
Oracle Case Study: Symetra Financial
White Papers Symetra Financial is a family of companies with nearly a half-century of experience providing retirement plans, employee benefits, annuities and life insurance through independent distributors nationwide.
[January 4, 2006, 23:00]
Apple puts its Cube on ice
News As previously reported, the unit had been unavailable from distributors for some time, which led to speculation that Apple was preparing to concede defeat and kill the 8in cube-shaped computer. For the past month and a half, the Cube has grown...
[July 4, 2001, 10:19]
AMD pulls in more firms to Intel battle
News Computer makers and a dozen distributors and retailers - including three companies that hadn't been subpoenaed by AMD before - were served papers as AMD seeks information related to its claims against Intel.
[October 7, 2005, 8:50]
Linux vendors to unify efforts
News The Linux distributors, along with IBM, HP, Intel, Computer Associates and others are due to make the announcement on Thursday morning. Responding to Thursday's pending announcement, Claybrook said on Wednesday that he is mainly interested in what...
[May 29, 2002, 15:36]
Microsoft slaps firms with piracy lawsuits
News The suits, which Microsoft publicised on Wednesday, allege that two software distributors in California and three in Virginia violated copyright and trademark laws that protect the Windows franchise. In April the company filed suits against eight...
[June 16, 2005, 9:35]
MS on verge of pricing revamp
News A number of Microsoft's UK distributors are receiving mixed reports about the company's plans to change its strategy, although one channel analyst said that he believed it was "highly likely" that Microsoft would instigate licensing and pricing...
[March 13, 1998, 16:22]



