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The drumbeat of economic bad news louder in the IT industry last week, as Intel reduced its fourth-quarter revenue forecast by as much as 20 percent and Sun Microsystems announced plans to lay off up to 18 percent of its workforce.

The auto industry has been offering US lawmakers an apocalypse-level scenario warning them that as many as three million jobs could disappear if automakers run out of cash.

The world of business software continued its inexorable march toward Total Consolidation in 2007. If IBM was off the mark in 1943 when it (supposedly) predicted a world with only five computers, it might have better luck today with a similar prediction about the software industry.

Service-oriented architecture promises many positives: resource reuse, application integration, business agility and infrastructure flexibility, among others. But never do SOA proponents claim ease of management as one of the technology's glories.

I2 Technologies accused SAP of patent infringement in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.

As supply chains stretch around the world, companies look to tweak supply chain management systems.

After a two-year hiatus, shares of supply chain management software maker i2 Technologies will become available once more for trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange.

The supply chain at Whirlpool in 2000 was broken. Indeed, a manager there at the time quipped that among the four major appliance makers in the U.S., Whirlpool ranked fifth in delivery performance.

Microsoft has tried for years to get other software vendors to use Office as the front end for their applications, according to some analysts. Now it finally appears to be making some headway.

Supply change management (SCM) software vendor i2 Technologies has inked a deal to standardize its suite on the Microsoft technology platform -- a move it hopes will help customers who want to do much the same thing with their own supply chain operations.

Manufacturers dream of a finely tuned supply chain, with finished goods landing softly on distributor and retailer loading docks at exactly the right time in precisely the right quantity. That can't be done, of course, without accurate demand forecasting -- which still tends to be based on intuition, last year's sales numbers, and spreadsheet war games between sales and marketing groups. For most, the dream remains distant.