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Solutions Providers Pause for Greenspan
Solutions providers remain upbeat, but most integrators saw their shares decline last week amid hints that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates later this year. For the week ended Jan. 30, our Ziff Davis Channel Zone Stock Index slid 2.24 percent to 1183.32. Decliners outnumbered advancers 21 to 8, with one index member unchanged.…
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Oracle Embraces Integration
SAN DIEGO—In an about-face on its longheld contention that it is unnecessary to enable easy integration between its E-Business Suite applications and third-party enterprise applications, Oracle Corp. announced last week that it is doing just that. “Really big companies don’t want” to implement Oracle E-Business Suite exclusively, CEO Larry Ellison acknowledged at the company’s Oracle…
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Chip Sales Climbed 18.3 Percent In 2003
Chip sales during the past year demonstrated robust growth, the Semiconductor Industry Association reported Monday. The SIA, which represents over 80 percent of the United States’ semiconductor companies, said that the chip industry grew by 18.3 percent to $166.4 billion, one of the strongest years on record. The chip market was driven by strong demand…
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Microsoft Patches Serious IE Flaw
Microsoft Corp. on Monday finally released a patch for a dangerous vulnerability that lets attackers trick Internet users into visiting malicious sites. The flaw has been public knowledge for some time, but Microsoft failed to include a fix for it with January’s scheduled patch releases. The vulnerability has to do with the way IE parses…
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John Parkinson: Budget Blacks and Blues
In the final quarter of every calendar year I send out a survey to my private research panel asking them about their (or their company’s) technology spending plans for the coming year. The respondents—a 30-year collection of just over 600 friends, acquaintances, ex-colleagues, clients and other contacts in the technology world who are willing to…
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Robert Sutton: The Best-Practices Trap
The argument for adopting “best practices” seems ironclad, at least on the surface. If you want your company to get better, you look at what great companies do (or at least companies that perform better than yours), and then copy it. This assumption is so obvious that most management writers, consultants, software vendors and gurus…
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