Global vendor strategies - 30/05/06

Huawei has appointed Etisalat Academy, a division of the Etisalat operator, as its regional training partner in Middle East.

IBM has introduced two new open source software products: IBM Tivoli CCMD (Change and Configuration Management Database) for IT service management, and IBM Tivoli Availability Process Manager for performance analysis on IT systems.

Nokia has decided not to replace  F. Michelin (died last weekend) at its Board, and to limit its Board to 9 members.

Ericsson targets the professional services market in China.