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Salesforce Targets Integration
A battle brewing in the business applications market is boiling down to two sides: on-premises versus on-demand software. Salesforce.com, an on-demand vendor in San Francisco that racked up $500 million in revenue in the third quarter of fiscal 2007, is looking to better delineate its integration strategy by announcing Nov. 27 ApexConnect, a family of…
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Microsoft-Novell Deal Causes Strife
The controversial deal between Microsoft and Novell is continuing to roil the open-source waters. Just weeks after its patent cooperation agreement with Microsoft, Novell is hitting back at statements by Microsoft executives that the deal acknowledges that Linux infringes on its intellectual property. At the same time, officials with the JBoss division of top Linux…
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SAAS: More, Not Less, Channel
When Bluewolf Group unwrapped an on-demand Salesforce.com implementation at the New York Times Co. earlier this year, it was already weeks ahead of the schedule an on-premises solution would have required. But the real work was just beginning. Bluewolf immediately plugged in 700 of the Times’ sales representatives to the Salesforce Enterprise Edition Customer Relationship…
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When Disaster Strikes
A natural or man-made disaster can strike anywhere, anytime, with ruthless and devastating results—that’s the awful essence of a disaster. Hurricane Katrina and the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks loom large in the collective memory for the magnitude of their destruction, but smaller-scale, localized disasters happen all the time: a fire in a building, human error…
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OpenSUSE 10.2 RC1 Arrives
“That was fast!” said one acquaintance on learning that the first OpenSUSE 10.2 release candidate put in its appearance on Thanksgiving afternoon not three weeks after Beta 2 arrived. The release is currently available for downloading via both ftp and BitTorrent. “OpenSUSE 10.2 RC1 comes in different medias,” according to Andreas Jaeger, Novell/SUSE’s project manager…
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Salesforce.com, Oracle Turn Up Heat in Business App Battle
There is a battle brewing in the business applications market, and it’s boiling down to two sides: on-premises versus on-demand software. With Salesforce.com, the poster child for on-demand software, racking up a half-billion dollars in revenues for its fiscal 2007 third quarter, it’s clear the on-demand sector is gaining ground. To better delineate its integration…
