DSO eyes Oracle e-business suit

Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO) is looking to an Oracle e-business suite implementation to deliver a single portal for its tenant companies and to deliver cloud services in future, reports ITP.

The organisation's e-business suite project, which includes CRM, property manager, enterprise asset management, Oracle projects, and components of Oracle's fusion middleware, went live earlier this year, and is now serving 250 internal users with potential to reach a further 3 000 external users.

Speaking at Gitex, Abdulsalam Bastaki, vice-president of IT at DSO, says the deployment had been a success, on which DSO now intends to build more services for tenants, including integration with other government departments, such as Dubai nationalisation and residency department, Dubai economic department, and Tejari, to provide a single portal for all their business needs.

Hundreds of customers in Estonia are angry at the business practices of the Estonian arm of Directa, a Finnish-owned online business portal that manages Emateab business portal, writes BBN.

Customers who have been contacted by Direct Eesti's telephone sales person with an offer have later received an invoice for registration of company data although they have not agreed to the service.

One of such customers is Natalja Freiberg, owner and chairman of YTIC that handles solid fuels, says that after such a phone call the company received an invoice to 474 kroons for being registered as the portal's customer although she had no interest for the service.

eBay made its bond-market debut by tying Microsoft and PepsiCo for the second-lowest borrowing costs on record for three-year notes, according to Businessweek.

The company issued $400 million of 0.875 %t, three-year notes, $600 million of 1.625 %, five-year debt and $500 million of 3.25 %, 10-year securities, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

The three-year note coupon tie with bonds issued by Microsoft last month and PepsiCo last week, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, and was higher only than debt sold by Wal-Mart Stores in Oct according to Bank of America data.