Annual report pursuant to Section 13 and 15(d)

Description of Business

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Description of Business
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2016
Description of Business  
Description of Business

 

Note 1.  Description of Business

 

Wayside Technology Group, Inc. and Subsidiaries (the “Company”), was incorporated in Delaware in 1982.  The Company distributes software developed by others to resellers who in turn sell to end customers worldwide.  We also resell computer software and hardware developed by others and provide technical services directly to customers in the United States of America (“USA”) and Canada.  We also operate a sales branch in Europe to serve our customers in this region of the world. We offer an extensive line of products from leading publishers of software and tools for virtualization/cloud computing, security, networking, storage & infrastructure management, application lifecycle management and other technically sophisticated domains as well as computer hardware.

 

The Company is organized into two reportable operating segments. The “Lifeboat Distribution” segment distributes technical software to corporate resellers, value added resellers (VARs), consultants and systems integrators worldwide.  The “TechXtend” segment is a value-added reseller of software, hardware and services for corporations, government organizations and academic institutions in the USA and Canada.