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Profile Computers, the biggest channel casualty of 1995, has thrown in the towel. Directors of the Croydon reseller last week secured the agreement of the creditors to put the company into liquidation.
IBM made further attempts to position its mid-range AS/400 platform as a network-centric client server base as it announced a native version of Notes last week.
Hayes is to set to come out of Chapter 11 protection after a US judge agreed with the modem manufacturers reorganisation plan. The plan had been contested by Diamond Multimedia. The plan, backed by Northern Telecom and investment company Acma, allows it to emerge from Chapter 11 after its creditors are paid.
As US forces steam towards Taiwan in an effort to prevent Red China firing missiles across the computing island's bows, the news remains good for motherboards. Intel's surplus is so great that if a blockade becomes worse, PC stocks will remain high.
Paul Cook UK MD quit reseller Stream last week at the same time as Richard North, VP for Europe, following restructuring. In a bid to become pan-European, Stream International is setting up a multi-million pound European technology centre, which will employ over 200 people, to sell software via key technologies such as the Internet and customised CDs.
Former Conner distributor Ambar Systems has sneaked a tape distribution agreement with Seagate from under the nose of sister company and rival Thame Systems. Thame Systems which is part of the Raab Karcher Group used to distribute Conner tape.
Xerox has developed a seven million pixel flat panel display screen. The Dpix screen works on PCs but is unlikely to become a distribution item until military and medical buyers ramp up the volume.
Founder of troubled Escom Computer group, Manfred Schmidt, is expected to offer to resign as chairman of the board after the PC company turned in a substantial loss for 1995.
Digital will soon release details of how to cluster Alpha Servers using a 100Mbps PCI bus.
Microsoft has signed deals with a dozen US ISDN providers so it can bundle services with a Windows 95 Accelerator Pack, prompting speculation that a UK deal with BT is in the offing. It has also reorganised its European customer services offerings into two parts, MS Answerpoint for developers and small to medium businesses and MS Service Advantage which provides extensive support for large companies.
Merisel has improved its Same Day delivery service to customers to include the whole area inside the M25, for orders that are placed before noon.