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02/06/2008
NetSuite to buy on-demand services firm
Deal may be sign of more SaaS M&A to come
07/03/2008
Apple targets Blackberry with enterprise iPhone plans
Apple has finally indicated that it is ready to turn the iPhone into a business tool by announcing that it has licensed protocols from Microsoft that would allow the device to support Exchange. In addition, Apple has said that it had made a software developer kit (SDK) available for third party developers.
17/01/2008
Sun Acquires MySQL: Impact on the CIO?
Sun Microsystems announced this week that it will acquire MySQL in a £509 million ($1 billion) deal.
21/11/2007
SaaS gets own version of open source licence
The Free Software Foundation has published a new open-source software licence designed for software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications.
16/11/2007
Citigroup signs 30,000 seat deal with Salesforce.com
Citigroup has signed a deal with Salesforce.com that will make it the on-demand customer relationship management vendor’s biggest user.
05/11/2007
Gartner ITxpo: SaaS purchasing decisions 'are bypassing IT'
Three-quarters of all software as a service (SaaS) has been bought by business unit managers rather than IT managers, Gartner research vice-president Ben Pring has warned.
31/10/2007
CIOs say SaaS enables quick change; but security concerns remain
CIO Executive Forum hears chief information officers say SaaS helps businesses fast track change
24/10/2007
WebEx hosts on-demand Siebel
Cisco's WebEx web conferencing business has said it will use its WebEx Connect desktop technology to host Oracle's Siebel CRM On Demand.
23/10/2007
Desktop application software is not dead, says Microsoft exec
A top Microsoft executive has defended desktop application software, the source of the company's revenue for three decades, and argued that even services-based companies such as Google still need it.
Microsoft drops price to partners for hosted CRM
Microsoft plans to reduce the price its partners will pay for its newest customer relationship management software, codenamed Titan, the company's latest foray into software-as-a-service (SaaS) CRM.
12/10/2007
Gartner's top 10 business technologies for 2008
Which technologies must small businesses consider in 2008? The list includes green power, unified communications, virtualisation, mashups and social software
11/10/2007
Ballmer yawns off Google Apps threat
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has written off Google's moves into competition with Office as not "even as good as 'me too'".
25/09/2007
Hackers steal server log-ins from hosting firm
Hosting vendor Layered Technologies admitted last week that hackers broke into its support database and made off with as many as 6,000 client records, including log-in information that could give criminals access to clients' servers.
21/09/2007
Analysts doubtful about SAP's on-demand targets
SAP has set an aggressive customer target for its yet-to-be-released hosted small-business ERP service, a goal some analysts say may be unrealistic.
19/09/2007
SAP gives pricing and release plans for hosted applications
SAP’s suite of hosted ERP software for the midmarket, SAP Business ByDesign and said it will be available initially in the US. and Germany, with the U.K, France and China to follow soon after.
13/09/2007
BT offers free business-management tools
BT Business has launched a set of free management tools designed to help small businesses run and manage their day-to-day operations.
10/09/2007
Capgemini offers enterprise services for Google Apps
Google has formed a partnership with Capgemini, which will provide IT services to large businesses that adopt the Google Apps Premier Edition hosted suite of collaboration and communication software.
08/08/2007
SaaS belongs to Oracle, says president Chuck Phillips
Oracle's president muddies the SaaS waters
31/07/2007
RightNow's CFO bullish despite poor results
RightNow got a bit of rough time when it released its quarterly results last week. For the full year, it now expects losses in the range of $0.65 (£0.32) to $0.70 (£0.34) per share with full-year revenue in the range of $108 million (£53.15m) to $110m (354.13m).
30/07/2007
