ChannelWeb's top five most read

A rundown of the five most-read stories on ChannelWeb last week

1) CRN launches Top VARs

CRN lifted the covers off Top VARs, a rundown of the 100 biggest VARs in the UK, ahead of its publication in two weeks' time

2) Acer confirms departure of UK chief

PC vendor's UK managing director will leave the firm at the end of 2011 but will hand over day-to-day responsibilities early next

3) Is BlackBerry crumbling?

Could Research in Motion's recent service outage prompt firms to abandon the BlackBerry device and jump ship in favour of its rivals?

4) To Sirs with love in RM leadership change

Long-time boss Terry Sweeney leaves embattled system builde

5) F5 joins $1bn club and adds 480 staff

But the Americas region continues to generate the bulk of application delivery controller silverback's sales