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SAP Customers Find Refuge from ERP Market Turmoil
SAN DIEGO—SAP’s TechEd conference here is proving to be an oasis of calm for corporate customers in an ERP (enterprise resource planning) software market that has been roiled by Oracle’s prolonged efforts to buy out PeopleSoft. Peck said that while it will take a few years to catch on in the market, he thinks NetWeaver…
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Microsoft to Muscle Deeper into VOIP?
While Microsoft’s Live Communications Server (LCS) is first and foremost an enterprise instant-messaging server, Microsoft is expected to position its 2005 version as its entrée into the telephony market. LCS 2005, code-named “Vienna,” went to beta this summer. Microsoft announced that it had delivered to testers the near-final “release candidate” beta in mid-September. Microsoft is…
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Novell Releases Updated SuSE Linux
At LinuxWorld Expo in London on Wednesday, Novell Inc. promised its desktop Linux software by the end of the year and launched the latest version of SuSE Linux Professional, including updated wireless networking technology. Hewlett-Packard Co.’s head of Linux strategy, speaking at the same conference, said recent advances in security and high-performance computing technology are…
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Top IT Players Tout Their Tech at Vortex
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.—Open-source game over, Sun Microsystems president Jonathan Schwartz said Tuesday at the annual Vortex conference here. There are a thousand distros, but Red Hat has taken the dominant IT position. Schwartz claimed that nine out of 10 companies running Linux are using Red Hat in their data centers. He said the promise of…
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Some See PeopleSoft’s End Drawing Near
After 16 months of bloody warfare, PeopleSoft has finally voiced a willingness to sit down and discuss a deal with Oracle—a development that marks the beginning of the end for the company, according to some legal experts. PeopleSoft Inc. board member Steven Goldby, on the stand for the second day in a Delaware court trial,…
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Microsoft’s Upgrade Mandate for SP2 Perks Ruffles Few Feathers
Microsoft’s announcement that it will no longer support Internet Explorer patching for older versions of Windows will have little or no impact on resellers and their customers, although it may cause temporary pain for some. Although the move may create pain for some customers in the short term, some say it is necessary. “If Microsoft…
