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Everything Channel Announces the 2009 CRN Channel Bestsellers List

Posted on: Wednesday, 1 April 2009, 14:52 CDT

List Showcases Top Revenue Producing Technologies Sold through the IT Channel; Assists Solution Providers Make Strategic Decisions about Top Selling Products

FRAMINGHAM, Mass., April 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Everything Channel, a division of United Business Media, today announced the 2009 CRN Channel Bestsellers List which helps technology Solution Providers make strategic decisions about the top selling products in the IT Channel. The list recognizes the most popular technology categories and brands being sold through the IT Channel today.

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CRN partnered with the NPD Group, the world's leading provider of technology market research information to compile the data. The CRN Channel Bestsellers list represents the top five best-selling technologies in 20 technology categories, the leading Channel Bestseller in each category, and the Top Growth Bestseller. The #1 Channel Bestseller is determined by market share data from January through December 2008, while the #1 Top Growth Bestseller is determined by change in share between January through December 2007 and January through December 2008.

"The CRN Channel Bestsellers List helps Solution Providers make important product decisions and educated recommendations. We applaud the vendors who made the list," said Robert C. DeMarzo, senior vice president and editorial director, Everything Channel.

The 2009 CRN Channel Bestsellers list follows:

Systems Top 1 Top 2 Top 3 Top 4 Top 5 ($Volume ($Volume ($Volume ($Volume ($Volume Share) Share) Share) Share) Share) Desktops Hewlett- Lenovo Apple *** Acer ------- Packard ** Notebooks Hewlett- Lenovo Panasonic Sony Apple *** Packard ** Blade Hewlett- Servers IBM Packard * ------- ------- ------- Peripherals: Color LCD Hewlett- NEC Display 19-30" Samsung ** Packard *** Solutions Viewsonic Acer Peripherals: Color LCD NEC Display (> 30") Solutions ** Samsung Panasonic *** LG Sharp Document Hewlett- Scanners Fujitsu * Packard Canon Kodak Visioneer MFP Hewlett- Packard ** Lexmark *** Brother Xerox Canon Color Laser Hewlett- Printers Packard * Xerox Lexmark Okidata Ricoh Projectors Epson * In Focus NEC Panasonic Viewsonic UPS APC by Tripp Eaton Schneider Lite Powerware Liebert Hewlett- Electronics * Packard Network Security McAfee Watchguard Hardware Cisco ** SonicWall Nokia *** Technologies VPN CheckPoint * Watchguard SonicWall Technologies Inc ------- ------- E-mail Security TrendMicro * Symantec CA, Inc. Microsoft IBM Security Kasperky Suites Symantec * Trend Micro McAfee Inc. Lab CA, Inc. SMB Routers Cisco Systems (incl. Linksys) ** D-Link *** Netgear Inc Adtran Nortel SMB Wireless Cisco Routers Systems (incl. Linksys) ** D-Link *** Netgear Inc Apple Trendware External Seagate Hard Western (incl. Buffalo Drives Digital * Maxtor brand) LaCie Iomega Technology NAS Buffalo Hewlett- Network Netgear Sun Technology ** Packard Appliance Inc. Micro- Systems *** Business Software (Rel. Filemaker, Databases) Microsoft * IBM Oracle Inc. ------- Storage Mgmt Symantec/ EMC Software Veritas ** IBM *** CA, Inc. Acronis Corporation * #1 Best Seller + Biggest Share Gain ** #1 Best Seller *** #1 Biggest Share Gain

For additional information on the CRN Channel Bestsellers List, visit: www.channelweb.com.

Everything Channel (www.everythingchannel.com, www.channelweb.com)

Everything Channel is the one-stop shop for accessing, enabling, managing and accelerating technology sales channels. From branding and recruiting to marketing and sales, Everything Channel offers technology marketers the unmatched breadth and depth of global brands and market intelligence combined with unparalleled audience loyalty and credibility serving all technology sales channels through an extensive database. Everything Channel provides innovative sales and marketing solutions to arm the sellers of technology with the resources they need to achieve measurable and significant results.

About United Business Media Limited (www.unitedbusinessmedia.com)

UBM (UBM.L) focuses on two principal activities: worldwide information distribution, targeting and monitoring; and, the development and monetisation of B2B communities and markets. UBM's businesses inform markets and serve professional commercial communities - from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewellery traders, from farmers to pharmacists - with integrated events, online, print and business information products. Our 6,500 staff in more than 30 countries are organised into specialist teams that serve these communities, bringing buyers and sellers together, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently.

Contact Maureen Park Everything Channel 516 562 5942 mpark@everythingchannel.com

SOURCE Everything Channel

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