Stories by: Chris Kanaracus

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Widespread discontent persists with ERP projects 18 March, 2010 05:22

More than half of companies that implement ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems end up garnering no more than 30 percent of the business benefits they expected, according to a new study released by systems integrator Panorama Consulting Group.
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IBM adding development and test offering to public cloud 17 March, 2010 06:41

IBM will soon offer software development and testing services through its public cloud, adding to a private cloud option launched in June 2009, the company said Tuesday.
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Microsoft tries to lure NetSuite users with new deal 12 March, 2010 07:31

Microsoft is offering financial enticements to customers of on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor NetSuite to switch over to Microsoft's Dynamics family of business applications.
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CA to buy Nimsoft 11 March, 2010 08:44

CA said Wednesday it has signed a deal to buy IT performance monitoring vendor Nimsoft for US$350 million.
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Rackspace hires to align with MySQL offshoot 10 March, 2010 06:41

A number of former Sun Microsystems employees who worked on Drizzle, an offshoot of the MySQL open-source database, have ended up at cloud infrastructure provider Rackspace, where they will continue their efforts, developer Jay Pipes wrote in a blog post Monday.
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Infor's Flex upgrade program termed an early success 09 March, 2010 07:07

ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor Infor says its customers are warming up to Flex, a new upgrade and application-exchange program it started last year.
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Apple iPad goes on sale April 3 06 March, 2010 01:12

The wifi model of Apple's highly anticipated iPad multimedia device will be released in the U.S. on April 3, with 3G-enabled devices available later in the month, Apple announced Friday.
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RightNow tries to change SaaS contract, pricing game 05 March, 2010 07:36

CRM vendor RightNow announced a new SaaS (software as a service) pricing and licensing model on Thursday that it says provides customers with fairer, clearer deals. The company also issued a "Cloud Challenge" to competitors, urging them to adopt similar principles.
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Oracle hikes certification testing fees 03 March, 2010 08:00

Oracle made significant increases this week in the cost of technical certification exams for Sun and Oracle technologies.
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SAP lands major deal with 3M at Oracle's expense 02 March, 2010 06:54

SAP has seen its share of executive upheaval and customer discontent in recent months, but a newly inked agreement with global conglomerate 3M is giving it reason to celebrate.
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Amazon EC2 boosts memory, Windows support 24 February, 2010 07:44

Amazon Web Services has added a new "high memory extra-large" instance option for its AWS' Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service, which provides scalable computing infrastructure over the Internet.