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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.

Oracle has released the first major new version of its demand management software a year after acquiring the technology through the purchase of Demantra.

Level3 announced on Wednesday that it has completed construction of Internet2's new 100Gbps backbone network.

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

It was quintessential Larry Ellison. "In a single step, Oracle becomes the No. 1 CRM applications company in the world," Oracle's flamboyant CEO trumpeted in the recent announcement of his US$5.85 billion acquisition of Siebel Systems. The buyout will "strengthen our No. 1 position in applications in North America", he proclaimed, "and move us closer to the No. 1 position in applications globally."

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.