Jun 03 2008

Vista, Office 2007 Plan Will Drive More Annuity Deals

Microsoft’s extensive product lineup and licensing plan for Windows Vista and Office 2007 ultimately will drive more annuity-based Enterprise Agreements and Software Assurance deals, solution providers said.

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Jun 03 2008

New Exchange 12 Code Shows Off Clustering, Log Shipping

A new beta of Exchange 12 code available Wednesday to certain Microsoft communities, will show off heretofore unannounced replication and clustering capabilities.

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Jun 03 2008

Burgum: MBS Hits Profit Sooner Than Expected

Microsoft Business Solutoins posted a $10 million profit on sales of $242 million for the second fiscal 2006 quarter ending December 31. For the year-ago period it lost $17 million on sales of $207 million.

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Jun 03 2008

Sage Accounting Lines To Add Credit Services

Sage Software plans to integrate credit-card processing and management
know-how into upcoming versions of its accounting and ERP software, CEO Ron Verni told CRN last week.

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Jun 03 2008

Sage Buys Verus For Credit-Card Processing

Sage Software plans to integrate credit-card processing and management know-how into upcoming versions of its accounting and ERP software, Sage CEO Ron Verni said Monday.

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Jun 03 2008

Q&A: Sage Software CEO Touts Growth In Business-Software Market

Sage Software might not have the name recognition of an SAP, Oracle or Microsoft, but this multinational business-software vendor is one of the major players in the SMB space. Sage has been a voracious acquirer of other software companies in the past few years and has been growing. The company recently ended its fiscal year with revenue of $1.4 billion, up 14 percent over the year prior. Ron Verni is CEO of Sage’s North American operations, which is responsible for 41 percent of the company’s total sales. He recently talked with <i>VARBusiness</i> managing editor/technology Carolyn A. April about the business-software market, consolidation and partner strategy.

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Jun 03 2008

An &#8216;Intuit&#8217;ive Solution For The Midsize Market

Midsize companies that have previously relied on Intuit&#8217;s QuickBooks Professional will find that QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions is the most advantageous product to buy when transitioning to a midmarket accounting solution.

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Jun 03 2008

Microsoft Stakes Out the Middle

Today, the midmarket’s estimated 1.2 million businesses represent the next major target for Microsoft and, CEO Steve Ballmer hopes, its partners.

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Jun 03 2008

Benioff, ISV Rivals Fire Back At Microsoft&#8217;s SMB Strategy

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and other business software vendors lined up this week to put their spin on Microsoft’s drive into their bread-and-butter small- and midsize-business markets.

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Jun 03 2008

Confessions Of A Slow Mover

This is the story of a stubborn owner of a profitable network services company who subscribed to the &ldquo;if it ain&rsquo;t broke don&rsquo;t fix it&rdquo; approach to running his business.

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