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  • Security Attacks and Breaches on the Rise

    September 24, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Two reports by organizations that track attacks on corporate networks released last week will probably not make network and security administrators sleep any better. But, given all of the malware, worms, and other nasty stuff out there in the electronic world, they probably were going to sleep with one eye open and one hand on the BlackBerry anyway.

    The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) recently commissioned a survey of IT organizations to try to find out how severe the security breaches they are seeing in their systems are. The severity level is on the rise, according to those companies survey.

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  • SAP Plants Its Flag in Mid-Market Territory with SaaS Apps

    September 24, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Application software giant SAP certainly is not the first company to bring hosted applications to market on a subscription basis to the midrange market, but the German company’s top executives made it clear at the launch in New York last week of the forthcoming “A1S” product line, officially called Business ByDesign, that SAP intended to dominate the mid-market much as it currently does for applications aimed at the largest enterprises in the world. The stakes are high, and SAP took great pains to explain why it has moved slowly and deliberately as it chases the mid-market with a software as

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  • Oracle Sales Go Boom in Its First Fiscal Quarter

    September 24, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Software maker Oracle‘s application acquisition strategy and recent upgrade cycle for its middleware and database is clearly paying off. In its first quarter of fiscal 2008 ended August 31, Oracle reported that its sales rose by 26 percent to $4.5 billion, besting the estimates that it had encouraged Wall Street to set earlier this summer. Net income rose in lockstep, by 25 percent, giving Oracle $840 million that fell to the bottom line.

    Oracle’s total software sales were up 26 percent in the quarter, to $3.5 billion, with new software license sales rising even faster, up 35 percent to

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  • Onstor Survey Confirms Data Centers Running Out of Juice and Space

    September 24, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    IT vendors try to make money off trends, just like the rest of us. Power and cooling issues are big deals in data centers these days, so it comes as no surprise that vendors of all manner of IT gear are trying to figure out how to capitalize on concern over power use in general and specifically at data centers that are running out of power and cooling as they expand their infrastructure faster than they can get power into existing or new data centers.

    Clustered network storage vendor ONStor recently commissioned a survey of IT decision makers to get

    …

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  • A Little Application Humor, Thanks to Lawson Software

    September 24, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    If Number Two always has to try harder, as car rental company Avis used to say in its commercials, then imagine how hard you have to try when you are number six behind SAP, Oracle, Infor, Sage Group, and Microsoft. Even if you don’t count Sage and Microsoft as providers of enterprise-class applications, Lawson Software is still up against some pretty tough competition.

    Which is why, perhaps, the company–or someone who has invested money in Lawson stock–has put out a stealth marketing video on YouTube, which you can see here, describing how three companies–Elcaro,

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  • A Little Application Humor, Thanks to Lawson Software

    September 24, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    If Number Two always has to try harder, as car rental company Avis used to say in its commercials, then imagine how hard you have to try when you are number six behind SAP, Oracle, Infor, Sage Group, and Microsoft. Even if you don’t count Sage and Microsoft as providers of enterprise-class applications, Lawson Software is still up against some pretty tough competition.

    Which is why, perhaps, the company–or someone who has invested money in Lawson stock–has put out a stealth marketing video on YouTube, which you can see here, describing how three companies–Elcaro,

    …

    Read more
  • Onstor Survey Confirms Data Centers Running Out of Juice and Space

    September 24, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    IT vendors try to make money off trends, just like the rest of us. Power and cooling issues are big deals in data centers these days, so it comes as no surprise that vendors of all manner of IT gear are trying to figure out how to capitalize on concern over power use in general and specifically at data centers that are running out of power and cooling as they expand their infrastructure faster than they can get power into existing or new data centers.

    Clustered network storage vendor ONStor recently commissioned a survey of IT decision makers to get

    …

    Read more
  • Oracle Sales Go Boom in Its First Fiscal Quarter

    September 24, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Software maker Oracle‘s application acquisition strategy and recent upgrade cycle for its middleware and database is clearly paying off. In its first quarter of fiscal 2008 ended August 31, Oracle reported that its sales rose by 26 percent to $4.5 billion, besting the estimates that it had encouraged Wall Street to set earlier this summer. Net income rose in lockstep, by 25 percent, giving Oracle $840 million that fell to the bottom line.

    Oracle’s total software sales were up 26 percent in the quarter, to $3.5 billion, with new software license sales rising even faster, up 35 percent to

    …

    Read more
  • Security Attacks and Breaches on the Rise

    September 24, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Two reports by organizations that track attacks on corporate networks released last week will probably not make network and security administrators sleep any better. But, given all of the malware, worms, and other nasty stuff out there in the electronic world, they probably were going to sleep with one eye open and one hand on the BlackBerry anyway.

    The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) recently commissioned a survey of IT organizations to try to find out how severe the security breaches they are seeing in their systems are. The severity level is on the rise, according to those companies survey.

    …

    Read more
  • IBM Cuts User Prices on User-Based CBU Editions

    September 24, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    There hasn’t been a lot of announcement activity from IBM in recent weeks on the System i front, but I did want to alert you to the fact that the company did trim two prices on user-based software access on its new Capacity BackUp (CBU) editions.

    Specifically, IBM cut prices on user activations for 10 users on i5/OS on the CBU based on the i5 525 from $2,000 to $1,000; this is i5/OS (5722-SSC for user-based licensing, feature code 1602). IBM also cut the price to convert a base user-priced i5 525 CBU to an unlimited number of users in

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