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A wave of consolidation is sweeping the IT industry, and many open source business applications will be left behind when customers pare down their suppliers, an SAP executive predicted on Wednesday.
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Financial software giant Sage has announced aggressive plans to make an impact on the Australian small and medium enterprise market.
Companies such as IBM, Oracle and VeriSign are asking for EU laws on data protection laws to be relaxed, to aid global business.
Henning Kagermann, chief of SAP, says new competition, fast-moving tech are driving the company to rethink how it builds its software and how to sell it.
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