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Ingres Scores a Money Man
Open-source database company Ingres has snapped up a financial whiz to be chief financial officer. The company announced Feb. 6 that it had tapped Tom Berquist for the role. Berquist is currently managing director with Citigroup, where he follows medium-to-large capitalized software companies such as BEA, Microsoft and Oracle. Terry Garnett, Ingres chairman and CEO,…
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EMC Places Its SMB Bet on the Channel
Following a string of acquisitions and enterprise product launches, enterprise storage goliath EMC is turning its sights on the SMB (small and midsize business) market, with a new product line and an all-channel market strategy. EMC, based in Hopkinton, Mass., announced on Feb. 6 its EMC Insignia, six new products for storage, management, protection and…
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Business Objects Demystifies Promotions for Packaged-Goods Players
Business Objects on Feb. 7 will help to unfrazzle consumer packaged-goods execs by delivering analytics that spell out what’s going on with all the money they’re spending on trade promotions. BusinessObjects Trade Promotion Effectiveness Analytics will be backed up by the release of industry-focused BusinessObjects XI Release 2 analytic applications, which run on the company’s…
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Hard Drive Sales Spiral Upward
A healthy spending environment, with businesses and users snatching up servers and PCs, last year pushed sales of hard disk drive units to grow by 25 percent unit in 2005. Leading the HDD charge, Seagate Technology shipped 108 million drives to customers and organizations, according to a new report by TrendFocus. In the desktop HDD…
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Security May Dog Software as a Service
As the thirst for low-maintenance on-demand software continues to grow in the enterprise, some security experts and customers worry that security weaknesses could disrupt on-demand applications and leave them high and dry. For now, these security concerns lurk well below the surface—few of the big vendors pitching their wares at the RSA Conference on Feb.…
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SAP’s Breakout: Vendor Steps Up Efforts to Capture Market Share
When he looks at the competition for market share in the enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management space, SAP executive Rodney Seligmann recalls the Battle of Verdun. The battle was a nine-month saga in 1916 during which 1 million French and German soldiers lost their lives for less than 100 meters of French countryside…
