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xTuple is an open source ERP provider, and CEO Ned Lilly says there are few fellow travelers on his company’s path. In this tanking economy, the company has been leveraging both its open source bona fides and the fundamental functionality that is inherent in an ERP system to gain market share.
Our topic this week centers on governance as a requirement and an enabler for cloud computing. We’re going to talk not just about IT governance, or service-oriented architecture governance. It’s really more about extended enterprise processes, resource consumption, and resource-allocation governance.
The Internet agency with key oversight of the monikers behind every Web site, email address and Twitter post named former U.S. cybersecurity chief Rod Beckstrom Friday as its next chief executive. The board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers approved his hiring in a voice vote as ICANN capped weeklong meetings in Sydney, Australia.
Yahoo Chief Executive Carol Bartz echoed the turnaround promises of her predecessors as she presided over the first shareholder meeting since her hiring, yet she left little doubt the slumping Internet company’s new boss isn’t the same as the old bosses. Like Terry Semel did in 2007 and Jerry Yang again last year, Bartz assured shareholders Thursday that she will polish Yahoo’s tarnished brand.
Microsoft is the target of yet another legal challenge — this time from the online travel Web site Kayak, which has sent the software giant a letter noting similarities between its own site and Bing’s travel service. It has asked Microsoft to take steps to address the matter.
Palm continued to hemorrhage money in the fourth quarter of its fiscal 2009. For the quarter that ended May 31, the firm’s net loss totaled more than $91.5 million. However, the figures it revealed Thursday represent the months just ahead of Palm’s release of the Pre. Palm’s latest smartphone sold 100,000 units in its first weekend on shelves, according to partner carrier Sprint.
Right now, Microsoft is focusing on the consumer market by getting Windows 7 out in time for the holiday season and announcing price points compatible with recession-era budgets. However, an even bigger constituency is the business community — and after the debacle that was Vista, it is understandable to wonder how eagerly it will embrace Windows 7.
A state court judge on Thursday found Dell in contempt of court, saying the computer company was making a “mockery” of the system with its alleged piecemeal production of documents in a civil lawsuit over New Orleans’ crime camera system. Judge Rosemary Ledet also ordered Texas-based Dell to pay $25,000 in sanctions.
Shares of e-commerce software service provider Digital River rose nearly 5 percent in afternoon trading after a JMP Securities analyst upgraded the stock to “Market Outperform” from “Market Perform,” citing strong business fundamentals and strength in the company’s digital download service business.
When e-commerce was born some 13 years ago, systems were typically proprietary, requiring a large team of internal developers to constantly upgrade features while diligently working to integrate them into key legacy back-office systems. At times, these were near-impossible tasks that consumed vast amounts of money and time.
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