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  • Microsoft Tries to Explain Away Outlook 2007 Controversy

    Microsoft Tries to Explain Away Outlook 2007 Controversy

    Peter Galli

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    Microsoft is trying to dampen criticism by explaining its controversial decision to unify the rendering and editing engines in Outlook 2007 and use only the Word 2007 engine, even though there are some HTML and Cascading Style Sheet attributes that the engine does not currently support. The move is a significant change from previous versions… Read more

  • Oracle Announces Upgrades to E-Bus, PeopleSoft, JDE, Siebel

    Oracle Announces Upgrades to E-Bus, PeopleSoft, JDE, Siebel

    Renee Boucher Ferguson

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    NEW YORK—The historic Hudson Theatre was home to a new sort of show Jan. 31—more technology-focused than Broadway—focused—and with a little less fanfare. Oracle hosted its Applications Unlimited road show here in New York to unveil the next versions of its five major Enterprise Resource Planning suites: Oracle E-Business Suite 12, PeopleSoft Enterprise Suite 9.0,… Read more

  • Gen X May Struggle to Fill Baby Boomers’ Shoes

    Gen X May Struggle to Fill Baby Boomers’ Shoes

    Deborah Perelman

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    Generation X managers may struggle to fill Baby Boomers’ shoes as they retire over the next 10 years and company leadership transitions to the younger group, according to new research. PDI (Personnel Decisions Internal), a Minneapolis-based global human resources consulting firm, on Jan. 30 released a report saying that 22.5 million Baby Boomers are on… Read more

  • Seven Places to Clean the Clutter in IT

    Seven Places to Clean the Clutter in IT

    Paul A. Strassmann

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    Can an IT department cut its annual spending by 30 percent and still remain effective? Hewlett-Packard is on track to do that under a five-year business transformation plan that calls for cutting IT costs from $3.04 billion in 2003 to $2.11 billion in 2008. HP offers a case study for tech managers on how to… Read more

  • Donna Troy to Leave SAP’s Global Channel

    Donna Troy to Leave SAP’s Global Channel

    John Hazard

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    SAP’s Donna Troy will resign her post as head of the software maker’s global channel program, company sources revealed Jan. 29. Troy, executive vice president of global SME (small and midsize enterprise) indirect channels, will leave the company soon, following a restructuring of SAP’s channel and sales groups that brought her team and position under… Read more

  • Salesforce.com, Deloitte Announce Alliance to Bring Apex to the Enterprise

    Salesforce.com, Deloitte Announce Alliance to Bring Apex to the Enterprise

    Renee Boucher Ferguson

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    Salesforce.com and Deloitte Consulting are going global with on-demand development capabilities. The two companies announced Jan. 30 a strategic alliance that has Deloitte building out its customer relationship management practice around Salesforce.com’s applications and Apex development platform. As part of the alliance, Deloitte Consulting will incorporate Salesforce.com’s suite of CRM applications, as well as its… Read more