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Apollo Global Management acquires Tech Data for $5.4 billion

Distributor Tech Data has agreed to sell its outstanding shares to Apollo Global Management, totaling approximately US$5.4 billion in an all-cash deal.

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Apollo Global Management acquires Tech Data for $5.4 billion

Distributor Tech Data has agreed to sell its outstanding shares to Apollo Global Management, totaling approximately US$5.4 billion in an all-cash deal.

Dell updates its as-a-service offerings, debuts Dell Technologies On Demand

Dell combines its hardware into a single autonomous infrastructure called PowerOne

*This story was updated Nov. 13 to include additional information and quotes from John Roese and Scalar,…

Cisco Partner Summit 2019 – Canadian partner awards

Twelve partners walked away with some hardware this week during Cisco’s Canada Partner Award celebrations.

Cisco announces DevNet certification for partners

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Security consultants squabble over which patches are the most critical

Oracle Database 11g available on Linux

Free evaluation version can be downloaded from Oracle’s Web site

Intuit, Microsoft refresh personal finance software

New for Intuit is easier expense categorization and support for PayPal transactions

Mac vs. PC cost analysis, Part 2

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Dell Canada president to become channel chief

Greg Davis has been given a mandate to build Dell’s channel, but one analyst says the challenges could be daunting

Oracle readies 11g pricing as Linux version debuts

Gartner ranks Oracle as the top relational database management system vendor by market share for 2006

A culture of convenience

How many risks are your IT people and users taking because those risks are convenient?

Novell buys endpoint security firm Senforce

Vendor moving quickly to integrate new technology into its offerings

Nokia says 46 million batteries may overheat

Problem traced back to batteries from Japan’s Matsushita Battery Industrial

Windows Vista means wow

New Vista for Business has a promo from Ingram Micro Canada

Investors bail on SCO

Microsoft talks about SCO’s problems and more news about money

SCO is not done yet

Judge rules that SCO doesn’t own copyright to Unix

Justifying Web 2.0

Executives from around the world outline the channel opportunities for social networking

Mac vs. PC cost analysis, Part 1

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Bright new promo

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