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CRM: Oracle beats out Salesforce and Microsoft for CSCC-CRM

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner announced the results of their CSCC-CRM rankings.  Oracle-Siebel software is positioned as the only entry in Gartner’s upper right ‘Magic Quadrant’ for Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Customer Service Contact Center.  Siebel beat out close contenders Salesforce and Microsoft. The products in the study aren’t…

Linux: Red Hat Launches an Open-Source Exchange

By Dick Weisinger

Red Hat plans to launch a service later this year that sells partners’ open-source software.  This is another step that should help Red Hat move beyond its core business of packaging and supporting the Linux Operating System.  The Red Hat…

SaaS: Gartner predicts SaaS will grow to $19.3 billion by 2011

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner is predicting that the worldwide SaaS market will grow from $6.3 billion in 2006 to reach $19.3 billion by the end of 2011.  In 2006 the growth rate was 26 percent and the prediction is for growth to continue at…

SaaS: SAP Moves Slowly in Targeting SMBs with OnDemand

By Dick Weisinger

SAP is beginning to make noise that they’re getting more serious about SaaS.  SAP is desperately trying to come up with a strategy to grow from a base consisting mostly of large companies to one that can also attract small and medium…

Compliance: SEC Chairman Cox supports SOX

By Dick Weisinger

In a speech for the US Chamber of Commerce’s First Annual Capital Markets Summit, Christopher Cox, SEC Chairman, came out in support of the somewhat contentious Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley.  Cox spoke days after the Chamber of Commerce came out with…