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Retailers on Shopping Spree for New Software
STORY HIGHLIGHTS: 85 percent of all retail purchasing decisions are made at the store shelf Retailers are expected to spend $10.4 billion on software by 2011 76 percent of retail software implementation will be hosted at a central location Top three retail software vendors in 2006 were: SAP ($210 million), Oracle ($205 million) and Microsoft…
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Hosting Without Borders
NEW YORK—Microsoft has gotten religion on hosting, and in a big way. Windows Server 2008, to be released Feb. 27, 2008, includes tools and features intended to make Microsoft partners better hosts. It includes tools to ease the deployment and provisioning of Web sites during a data migration, said Michael van Dijken, lead marketing manager…
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Reseller Program Legalizes Windows on Refurbished PCs
Resellers who deal in refurbished PCs now have the answer to a longstanding question—can they sell refurbished PCs with a legitimate Microsoft operating system? The answer came last week when Microsoft announced its MAR (Microsoft Authorized Reseller) program. The company created the program to help large refurbishers who wanted to deliver preinstalled legitimate Windows XP…
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AMR: Retail Software Sales to Top $10 Billion by 2011
A retail community with aging merchandising applications and the need to quickly strengthen merged channel technology will fuel a sharp growth in retail software purchases over the next few years, according to a new report from AMR Research. Retail software sales last year were $7.3 billion, with a compound annual growth rate of 7 percent…
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Metro Group Expands Its RFID Trial
One of the more aggressive retail RFID backers in the world, Germany’s Metro Group, announced Nov. 9 that it is moving its pilot to the second phase and adding 70 more suppliers in China and Vietnam. The program, which Metro calls “Tag It, Easy,” is intended to better track products through Metro’s global supply chain.…
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HP Tacks On More Virtualization and Power Tools
Hewlett-Packard wants to make it easier to manage a data center full of blades. At the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco Nov. 12, HP executives will detail updates to its BladeSystem C-class infrastructure that include new ways to manage virtual environments across thousands of individual blades within a data center. HP, based in Palo…
