Apollo Global Management acquires Tech Data for $5.4 billion

Number 9: With soaring income, sales to the U.S. government and a foothold in Europe, Softchoice is becoming many buyers’ top choice

Number 1: Last year he was number three on our list for buying a competitor. This year Jim Estill tops the chart for being acquired by Synnex Canada, vaulting him into the distributors’s big leaguern

A software company founded by Oracle chief Larry Ellison hopes to grow its number of channel partners here tenfold with its recent expansion into the Canadian market.

Number 6: This year Alan Schweitzer appointed a new president of the RAM Group following the death of his brother. The former court stenographer has come a long wayrn

Number 4: Would you have wanted this year? An accounting scandal, corporate resignations, and a channel shake-up – Joanne Moretti faced it allrn

Number 3: Taking time off to be with his family after shepherding the Microsoft Partners Conference here is a just reward. But Clegg will be backrn

The president of a Canadian laptop maker has some no-nonsense words for resellers:rn Stop waiting for customers to walk into your office

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Can you hurt someone by calling them an ‘information lifecyle manager?’rn

This month’s second annual Microsoft Canada Partner Impact Awards drew more than 300 entries from resellers across the country

Supercom is making some strategic bets on Asus and little-known Synology for its reseller base.rn

Sybase Inc. has opened a 105,000-sq.-ft., three-story facility adjacent to Ontario’s University of Waterloo.rn

Chipmaker says system builders have to do a better job of identifying their customers, and offers a tool to help them do the jobrn

Synnex Canada Ltd. is looking to grow its components business by five per cent in 2005 with last month’s opening of a new warehouse location, said company CEO Jim Estill.rn

The business analytics firm says it needs more VARs to boost channel revenue from 27 per cent of income. But a Canadian partner says he’s heard this song before and doubts there’s room here to add resellersrn

Desktop integrator proposes merger with network specialist in hopes of gaining synergiesrn