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PeopleSoft Granted Hefty Discounts to Outsell Oracle
SAN FRANCISCO—PeopleSoft Inc. was prepared approve discounts of up to 55 percent off list price to win business from Oracle Corp. and other competitors, a PeopleSoft sales executives testified Wednesday in U.S. District Court here. PeopleSoft didn’t hesitate to discount heavily whenever it was competing head-to-head with Oracle for new business or when it stood…
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IBM Helps ISVs Grid-Enable Apps
Seven ISVs have joined forces with IBM to prepare their applications for grid computing. Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM announced Tuesday that Cognos Software Inc., Citrix Systems Inc., Engineous Software Inc., Abaqus Inc., Actuate Corp., Fluent Inc. and Sefas Innovation Inc. have grid-enabled their applications with IBM’s assistance—through the company’s Solutions Grid for Business Partners Initiative. A…
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Linux Enterprise Toehold Widens with EU Wins
The open source Linux operating system continues to gain ground in governmental agencies around the world, winning another two converts this week. The Norwegian city Bergen on Tuesday said it plans to move 100 schools and 32,000 users away from its proprietary Unix and Microsoft Windows applications platform to Linux by the end of this…
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Oracle Trial: DaimlerChrysler Fears Costs from PeopleSoft Buyout
SAN FRANCISCO—DaimlerChrysler AG would likely have to spend $50 Million to $100 million to replace its PeopleSoft Inc. applications if Oracle is allowed to buyout the enterprise software company, a senior IT executive with the multinational auto maker testified Tuesday. As in earlier testimony presented by senior executives from large corporations who are PeopleSoft customers,…
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The Appeal of Offshore Outsourcing Keeps Growing, and Growing, and …
For longtime U.S.-based systems integrators, the benefits of outsourcing work to affiliates outside of the United States are becoming so attractive that doing otherwise simply doesn’t make good business sense. Lower costs, an eager and educated work force, faster time to market, and foreign governments more welcoming to the Western style of business are just…
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Will Microsoft Offer XP SP2 Security to Older Windows?
The world must wait until late July at the earliest until Microsoft Corp. delivers the final release of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2). But that isn’t stopping testers and customers from asking what Microsoft’s intentions are, in terms of back-porting the SP2 updates and fixes to other Microsoft operating systems and related products. Despite…
