ChannelWeb's top five most read

A rundown of most popular stories on ChannelWeb last week

1) Handbags at dawn for Websense and Blue Coat

Vendors' relationship turns frosty in spat over support for future versions of the ProxySG appliance

2) Dell quits EMC reseller business

Hardware giant discontinues decade-long relationship, citing the strength of its own-brand storage portfolio

3) Welsh council clears up missing school laptop rumours

Torfaen County Borough Council explains why the 8,600 laptops it procured from XMA this year are not being used

4) Smith seizes minority stake in Maxima

Ian Smith's firm MXC Capital invests £1m in loss-making VAR

5) RIM placates customers with free support

Chief executive Mike Lazaridis claims vendor is taking "aggressive steps" to prevent repeat of last week's outage