Voices Of The Channel

By Matt Pillar, chief editor

By the government’s estimation, the U.S. IT channel is comprised of 139,354 companies that call themselves one or more of the following: solutions providers, integrators, consultants, systems builders, MSPs, VARs, BC/DR solution providers, software installation service providers, and computer facilities management service providers.

That very precise-sounding statistic comes compliments of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).

I think it’s a relatively useless figure.