GEN-i continues to shrug off rumours that the company is about to be bought, but channel sources say that at least three suitors have been in sale talks with the systems integrator.
NOVELL has set up a customer point of contact, designed to help answer administrative questions and enable paper tasks to be done online.
VERITAS says the New Zealand channel should not view the reduction of its Australia distributors from four to two as a sign of what is about to happen here.
CITRIX is shuffling its New Zealand operation following the departure this month of its Auckland-based channel salesperson Sean Williams.
FORMER Cisco New Zealand boss Tim Hemingway has left his senior post with the company in Australia after less than a year.
HEWLETT-Packard has re-drawn the lines of its organisation chart in a bid to project a more simple and united front to customers and resellers.
WELLINGTON firm Lansmart has joined with Auckland company Service Direct to form Lansmart South Auckland.
SOFTWARE developer Idiom has appointed New Zealand company Advantage Software as a reseller.
IBM’s purchase of Logical CSI may have saved the systems integrator from going under a second time, according to financial statements released late last month.
COMPUTERLAND has topped an IDC mindshare ranking for the second year running.
US COMPANY Anacapa Ventures has bought the assets of Datareach, the Napier internet equipment company in liquidation, and renamed it XtendReach.
FUJITSU New Zealand’s Auckland and Wellington sales staff are reapplying for their jobs as part of the company’s move to a consulting focus and new business plan.
PARALLEL Solutions, the Australian company that took over Tech Pacific’s business for Hewlett-Packard spare parts in January, says sales are exceeding expectations.
VOICE Perfect NZ is crediting sales growth for the opening of its second New Zealand office and possibly a third later this year.
STORAGE software vendor Veritas is not ruling out a cull of its New Zealand distributors – nor is it ruling one in.
