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Open Source Choices
02.16.2010

Seth Grimes

Open source was Best Supporting Actor in the 2010 Editors' Choice Awards. It plays an important part -- in some cases, a star turn -- for 4 of The Dozen top-category winners and for 11 of the 36 Ones to Watch. Noting that the awards reflect both current impact and our expectations, clearly open source has reached a new level of enterprise importance and promise.

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David Linthicum

What's the Deal With Private Clouds?
02.15.2010
Many organizations like the idea of cloud computing, but they don't like the idea of handing over their processes and data to a third party. Thus, the private cloud was born. It's providing a nice evolution for cloud computing, and is becoming a very effective architectural pattern.

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Can Microsoft Catch Up by Giving Away Azure?
02.10.2010

David Linthicum

Microsoft Azure finally went into production amidst much fanfare. The long-awaited Azure platform is Microsoft's big bet in the cloud computing space, but can they catch up to AWS, Salesforce.com, Google, and other existing cloud players?

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Rajan Chandras

5 Opportunities and 3 Threats for Oracle
02. 9.2010
With the acquisition of Sun, Oracle now has a few things going for it, including something no other IT giant has -- not IBM, not Microsoft, and not SAP. And lurking also are a few challenges.

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Intelligent Enterprise Editors' Choice Awards 2010
February 11, 2010
by Intelligent Enterprise
Intelligent Enterprise names 'The Dozen' most influential vendors for the intelligent enterprise and 36 'Companies to Watch' in 2010.

Why You Need A SaaS Strategy
January 16, 2010
by Michael Biddick
Too many CIOs take an ad hoc approach to software as a service. That won't cut it as SaaS use expands.

Intelligent Enterprise 2010 Event Calendar
December 29, 2009
by Doug Henschen
If it's about information management, business intelligence, enterprise applications, processes or architecture, it's listed in our annual guide to technology events. Make your plans for the can't-miss conferences, expos and summits of 2010.

Intelligent Enterprise Top Stories of 2009
December 21, 2009
by Doug Henschen
Our ten most-popular articles of the year delivered helpful advice, forward-looking insight and deep analysis. Plus, we add our list of popular 'evergreen' gems offering timeless insight.

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ENTERPRISE APPS NEWS & ANALYSIS

RightNow Challenges SaaS Vendors On Pricing
Software-as-a-service vendor RightNow challenges other on-demand suppliers to get on the cloud pricing model.

Microsoft Office Heads For The Cloud
Steve Ballmer says his company's popular productivity suite is evolving to take advantage of Web-based computing.

SAP, Sybase Release Joint Mobile Apps
Sales and workflow apps developed on the Sybase mobile platform extend SAP CRM and Business Suite to iPhone and Windows devices.

SAP ERP Software Tapped By 3M
The adhesives giant already uses SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence software extensively in the U.S.; now it's replacing multiple legacy systems with Business Suite 7.

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