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Following up on a previous post: Why do people buy?.
I asked the question because the similarities between various enterprise systems have created a perception that the market has become commoditized.  Perhaps it has, but that doesn’t mean there is no differentiation. In their search for the right system to automate their businesses, too many evaluation [...]

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Two months ago Forrester Research predicted a 9 per cent growth in IT spending for 2008, today the Financial Times reports that the forecast has been revised downwards by 1/3 to 6 per cent growth.  
Andrew Bartles, author of the Forrester report makes two very important points:

Unlike the 2001 tech bubble, this is a slow down in spending [...]

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Check out the play story in today’s CIO Insider. It’s a fun look at some of the urban legends that have occupied the IT world over the years.  And to prove there are no favorites all the biggies Apple, Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, IBM, are represented.
Full disclosure here:  I rather liked the wired, portable biff. Too [...]

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