Minolco has been appointed as the sole importer and distributor of Minolta-QMS laser printers in SA following the closure of the local Minolta-QMS office.
PeopleSoft says it is in final negotiations to sell its SA subsidiary and move to a distributor-based operation. The company has also confirmed that local MD Jan Coetzee has resigned, in what is described as a sensitive situation.
Hitachi has launched its latest storage subsystem - the Thunder 9200 - aimed at the small and medium enterprise (SME) market segment. The subsystem scales from 72GB to 7.2TB. [Local rep: Shoden Data Systems]
FrontRange Solutions has appointed Kunene Solutions & Services (KSS) as a solution partner.
Sun Microsystems SA has appointed MGX as its first Storage Market Development Partner (SMDP).
First Technology has been appointed as an authorised service provider for Hewlett-Packard.
Matthew Barker, Computer Associates (CA) product manager at Workgroup, says CA's InoculateIT 6.0 solution provides enterprises with protection from virus infections.
Spescom Datafusion has signed a multi-million rand contract with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) to supply the Old Mutual contact centre with Avaya interactive voice response equipment.
AST Offshore Development (OSD) has entered into an alliance partnership with CS Rand, a UK-based provider of IT services.
3Com SA is to host the Partners 3 training camp for its channel partners in southern and eastern Africa.
Adobe Systems and Cardiff Software have teamed to deliver automated electronic form solutions based on Adobe Acrobat 5.0. [Local Cardiff rep: Prisma Solutions]
Intel today introduced its latest Pentium 4 processor, based on the NetBurst architecture and running at 1.7GHz.
Veritas Software has established a specialised Hewlett-Packard division to improve its support for the HP platform.