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IBM/Lotus hit back at Microsoft's boast that it plans to steal 5 million Notes customers this year by detailing a new 300,000-seat licensing deal with an Asian company and strong interest in Notes from emerging markets.

Tackling Australia's growing shortage of skilled IT staff and harnessing the talent required to create future leaders are just two of the priorities setting today's CIO agenda.

While a number of users say they have an interest in Oracle's grid computing strategy, several claimed that the company still has a way to go before they buy into the concept.

As Microsoft Corp. faces the cost-related controversy surrounding its Software Assurance licensing scheme, Sun Microsystems Inc. is hoping renewed interest in its gently priced StarOffice 6.0 suite will finally give it traction in the enterprise.

Colgate-Palmolive Co. is giving its IT infrastructure a good scrubbing.

SAP AG spinoff TeaLeaf Technology Wednesday announced the latest release of its Web application management software that aims to resolve Web site problems not usually detected by network management tools.

More than a few ripples disturbed the ERP (enterprise resource planning) market this week as a result of SAP's strategic overhaul and the acquisition of financially troubled middle-market player, Baan Co. NV, by Ivensys PLC, a London-based automation and controls group.

One of the great privileges of being the editor in chief of InfoWorld is that you get to interact with a broad range of people from all spectrums on a daily basis. But one of the encounters I look forward to most is when we bring the InfoWorld Corporate Advisory Board (CAB) to visit the editors of our magazine.

In an industry that emphasizes the benefits of automation, it's ironic that the single most important asset in the business today is people. In the last 30 days we at InfoWorld have had the pleasure of hosting two events to help keep us in touch with the needs of our readers. The most recent event was a gathering of our Corporate Advisory Board, or CAB, which is made up of IT executives from a number of respected, high-profile companies, including Colgate-Palmolive, Nestle, Visa, and Gannett.

Economics is primarily about power -- and who has the most. In the United States, that power manifests itself in various vertical industries that typically have two or three dominant companies. For example, Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp., and DaimlerChrysler AG dominate the auto industry, whereas

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