The good news is that Microsoft has cracked the nut. The bad news is, the more successful they are with making the story public, the more they show that the SAP product line is a reasonable option as well.

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Customers that have been sitting on fence now have a good decision point that is really powerful for them and has full flexibility to grow and change as their business needs change.

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This proves to me that there is still a lot of competition in the marketplace and, particularly, that SAP does not have a lock on the market. What this says is that there's a lot of issues in a competitive deal and that the market system still works for enterprise software.

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They are missing functionality, process and data models that are going to go into the functional areas. These are very complicated things that have to be dealt with to build the suite. At the end of the day, I walked away saying Oracle is going to have serious trouble meeting a 2008 deadline.

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You can swap, but the better thing to do is use the threat of swapping as leverage for getting a better deal. That's what keeps the vendors honest and competing against one another.

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The trend toward project-based operations is gathering momentum. Since IFS is one of the few companies offering a comprehensive, completely integrated, project-based solution, the company is well positioned to support enterprises in their transition toward the Project Economy.

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For years, the database has been an extremely vigorous competition between DB2 and Oracle database. The heat has gotten more intense because middleware has been added to the mix.

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Salesforce.com however owes it to [customers] to explain why this happened. They should be taking active responsibility and refunding costs to customers.

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Because they are under pressure to cap costs, corporations are searching for ways to make better use of their application infrastructure.

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