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World ERP users last week said they hope that Oracle's promise to support the software indefinitely will also mean improvements to the vendor's technical assistance programs and a clear upgrade process.

Microsoft Monday completed development of BizTalk Server 2006 and said the software would be generally available in the coming weeks.

Thirteen months after taking over rival PeopleSoft, Oracle's product road map appears to be its major Achilles' heel with the customers it inherited.

Microsoft will include a host of new software adapters with BizTalk Server 2006 without charging for them, but the price of the integration server will go up, according to the software's product manager.

Protecting customer investments is a pervasive theme at this year's Oracle Open World, and a common motif in nearly every presentation made by senior executives of the company.

One of Oracle's main talking points in touting its US$5.85 billion buyout of Siebel Systems was that shared users have been calling for such a move. "Our joint customers have consistently recommended this transaction to both companies for over a year," Oracle president Charles Phillips wrote in an open letter to customers posted on the company's Web site. "Together [with Siebel] we become a stronger, more strategic partner, with complementary resources and maximum deployment flexibility. Our customers and partners have asked for it directly."

Oracle this week shed some light on its nascent plans to converge five business application suites -- a move once seen as a big selling point for Oracle as it pursued a hostile takeover of PeopleSoft. Oracle President Charles Phillips Wednesday gave an update on the company's "Fusion" road map and fielded questions at a customer event here, one of several being held throughout North America.

Australian PeopleSoft and JD Edwards users today breathed a collective sigh of relief on news that Oracle Corporation has finally succeeded in its hostile takeover of PeopleSoft.

IT managers in Australia's manufacturing heartland have heard the hype, seen the dream and got the free T-shirt, but the great RFID revolution still looks like a pipedream according to one of Australia's largest wholesalers of therapeutic goods, Blackmores Ltd.

Managing 160 projects simultaneously and over 700 staff, Qantas CIO Fiona Balfour thrives on the complexity of business. Her focus today is on shifting an ageing IT shop with a 30-year-old data centre into a lean, mean outsourced machine that will eventually be an 'on-demand' style operation.