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Canadian ICT spending could shrink by 5 per cent in 2020: IDC

As the world responds to the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada’s ICT spending is expected to shrink by up to five per cent in 2020, predicted a new IDC report.

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Canadian ICT spending could shrink by 5 per cent in 2020: IDC

As the world responds to the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada’s ICT spending is expected to shrink by up to five per cent in 2020, predicted a new IDC report.

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This week on Reddit, MSPs talk about mental health, shadow IT, and more

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Only a select few are allowed to build apps related to COVID-19, says Apple

As the world fights COVID-19 pandemic, communities around the world are trusting apps to be their news…

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Synnex launches collaboration solutions program for channel partners

Synnex last week introduced a program to help partners sell and support unified communications and other collaboration…

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HPE reveals cloud-native software-as-a-service for 5G

This week, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) unveiled a software stack for the 5G core, combined with its HPE GreenLake platform, that will be available in the second half of this year.

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Software News

The top 25 newsmakers of 2007 – Number 13: Colleen Moorehead

Colleen Moorehead, the CEO of Nexient Learning, took partnering, not to mention mergers and acquisitions to a new level this year.

The top 25 newsmakers of 2007 – Number 7: Steve Mills

Big Blue pulled the trigger on a blockbuster deal to acquire Ottawa-based Cognos for $5 billion

The top 25 newsmakers of 2007 – Number 5: Phil Sorgen

The Microsoft Canada president speaks of a new development centre in Canada and some successes seen both inside and outside of the company

The top 25 newsmakers of 2007 – Number 2: Hubert Kelly, Rick Reid, Dave McDonald

While the curtain came down on the long-running NexInnovations drama this year, the final act was far from anti-climatic

Intuit stresses usability in upcoming QuickBooks 2008 release

At an event in Toronto recently, Intuit Canada gave members of the accounting industry a peak under the hood of QuickBooks 2008, the next release of the company’s flagship product.

Helping the channel monetize on SaaS

A new tool from NetSuite enables partners to bundle and resell customized vertical services

One love, one Greg

Greg Spierkel offers more programs for the VentureTech Network

Borland offers Together 2007

New visual modeling software aimed at the developer community

Venture Tech’s past meets its future with VLAN program

WBM’s JoeAnne Hardy takes over for outgoing Don Conaby

Microsoft offers VARs an alternative to UC

Microsoft will rely on partners to deliver its unified communications solution

Virtually there

VMware’s partner chief says virtualization is easy when you look at the competitive landscape

Industry ponders BEA, Oracle product overlaps

Early reaction to Oracle’s proposal to buy BEA Systems has observers acknowledging Oracle would have to deal with product overlap in the application server and middleware spaces.