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Eclipse to get wiki and CRM boost

New collaboration tools and members from the hosted CRM community await attendees at the Eclipse Foundation's annual conference. Read more »

SAP goes on-demand in Web software makeover

Enterprise software giant SAP on Wednesday unveiled a midmarket on-demand service, Business ByDesign, putting it in competition with the on-demand offerings of Salesforce.com, NetSuite and archrival Oracle. Read more »

IBM doubles down on software services

IBM is in discussions with its partners to create a prepackaged set of hosted applications, a move that could ultimately create an online analogue to traditional packaged applications and spur market adoption of software services. Read more »

SaaS unsuitable as core platform for businesses

Despite the cost savings software-as-a-service (SaaS) promises to provide, some businesses believe the on-demand delivery model is not suitable as a platform for core enterprise-class applications. Read more »

Salesforce.com wants customers to use the force

Salesforce.com is trying to persuade its customers to use its hosting platform, called force.com, to serve up their online applications, but even the company's leaders admit that most people still view it simply as a hosted CRM platform. Will its rebranding and development strategies help it to turn the corner? Read more »

Microsoft plans 'Live' CRM service

Microsoft plans to launch a new hosted CRM service next year under its expanding Live brand. Read more »

Salesforce.com forges closer links with Office

The hosted CRM software firm has launched a programme to entice Microsoft Office developers to write applications that tap into data stored in its applications. Read more »

Salesforce to open incubation centres

To drive entrepreneurship on the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, Salesforce.com will set up AppExchange "incubators" for software developers in yet-unspecified locations around the world by next year, says chief executive officer Marc Benioff. Read more »

Microsoft stakes application future on integration

As Microsoft prepares to launch highly-anticipated new versions of many of its applications, the company is banking on the pervasiveness of its software and its ability to integrate the products together. Read more »

Can Google break Microsoft's enterprise chokehold?

A tie-up with Saleforce.com sees Google pushing even further into Microsoft's businesss applications territory Read more »

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The host with the most

Business critical Web sites require fail-proof Web hosting. ZDNet Australia reports on companies who can manage the load whilst you focus on your business. Read more »

The LAMP development toolkit

Need to dust up your Linux, Apache, PHP, Perl, Python, and MySQL (LAMP) software stack skills? Our LAMP development toolkit is just what you need. Read more »

Disruptions in the software fabric

COMMENTARY -- According to a recent Gartner report, companies such as Oracle, SAP and Microsoft need to deliver more modular, bite-sized chunks of functionality, which would allow customers to update systems with more flexibility and speed. It's not exactly a new revelation. Read more »

Investigating open source

The proprietary/open source dilemma confronts governments and businesses everywhere--it's only a matter of scale. Read more »

Secure your .NET smart client apps with CAS

.NET allows code to be downloaded onto several workstations, which increases security concerns. Fortunately, the .NET Framework offers a solution--code access security (CAS). Read more »

Web services: Messiah or mirage?

Software vendors keep telling us that Web services are the answer. But what is the question? ZDNet Australia explores the state of Web services today. Read more »

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Mono a Mano

David McAmis [blogs:theneteffect] -- While the world has been heralding the release of Visual Studio.NET 2005, another project on the back-burner has been bubbling along. Read more »

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