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Open source has grabbed a big part of the server and app dev market. Apple has redefined the mobile device market and rendered Windows Mobile devices beyond passe. Firefox has blunted Internet Explorer's dominance, reversing the ActiveX hegemony for interactive Web apps, and removing one more barrier for widespread Macintosh usage. Vista is a dud -- "a piece of junk," one Gartner analyst called it yesterday in an interview.

When CompuCredit began feeling the sting of the subprime mortgage mess and resulting credit crunch toward the end of last year, CIO Guido Sacchi's IT organization was forced to absorb a 20 per cent year-over-year hit to its annual IT budget.

Even by the bloated standards of high-tech mergers and acquisitions, Microsoft's proposed purchase of Yahoo appears to be the largest ever among technology firms. It is certainly Microsoft's largest. The company mostly buys smaller firms for less than a billion dollars to fill in gaps in its product lineup. But that may be changing. Last year, for instance, Microsoft bought Seattle online advertising firm aQuantive for US$6 billion, its largest ever until the long-rumored Yahoo deal was unveiled on Friday.

Microsoft is developing a common code base for all of its Dynamics ERP (enterprise resource planning) applications, a company executive said Wednesday.

The world renowned Australia Zoo on Queensland's Sunshine Coast hinterland has installed a 3D facial recognition system.

Microsoft is spending more time soliciting and responding to feedback from users of its Dynamics business applications, according to attendees at the vendor's recent Convergence show in San Diego.

Microsoft Corp. will release a new version of its Dynamics CRM (customer relationship management) software with functions that mesh with its forthcoming Vista OS and Office 2007 software, the company said Tuesday.

Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) group Senior Vice President Doug Burgum, seen as the person largely responsible for creating Microsoft's now considerable ERP business, is leaving the company.

As certain as Microsoft is working on new software, its old products are being retired, leaving some customers needing to plan as carefully for decommissioning as for deployments.

Microsoft is streamlining the pricing of its four Dynamics enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications families from a per-module basis to a per-user basis as a way to make it easier for partners to sell the software.

Compiere has secured its first external funding to the tune of US$6 million and is planning to relocate its headquarters, the open-source midmarket business applications company said Tuesday.