As ERP systems include more features that used to cost money as separate add-ons, it will increase the pressure on both them and their partners to grow. Some will not survive.
Consolidation among the big ERP vendors might concern some users but they should first get more value out of what they already have.
In this World Wide Wrap: Open source BI hits Windows, another BI acquisition, and Oracle integrates, upgrades.
The company unwraps its Phenom X3 8000 series of processors.
In this World Wide Wrap: NEC breaks benchmark, finance sector spends most, and Marathon releases everRun VM.
E-mail is the weakest link in the security chain, says Naxian.
The companies will ship servers with embedded virtualisation.
In today's technology roundup: Bank wary of chip-and-PIN, Google, Yahoo and MySpace team up, Dell and HP face battery shortage, and Intel unveils 'low-voltage' server processors.
In this World Wide Wrap: Bell Micro reassures channel, Infotronics distributes Veeam, and Concentric offers e-mail protection.
Prior to contracting Edgetec's Managed Email service, AmVia received up to 39 000 spam e-mails daily.
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