iSeries Wins Top Honors for Loyal Customers 

This week in Florida, VARBusiness named the winners of the 2003 Annual Report Card survey, one of the industry's most trusted assessments of partner satisfaction. Big winners -- as picked by you, their solution providers -- included IBM, Microsoft and HP. They and other companies were honored at the CMP XChange '03 conference held this week at the Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel. IBM's Frank Vitagliano, vice president of distribution channels management for the IBM Personal Computing Division, was honored with the 2003 Lifetime Achievement award while Kevin Gilroy of Hewlett-Packard was named 2003 Channel Executive of the Year. Also singled out for special recognition: IBM's iSeries, which was recognized for having the highest Loyalty score in the entire study.