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Consultancy Capgemini and Amazon.com will offer application development and hosting services using Amazon.com's infrastructure, the companies said on Tuesday.

Integration of traditional on-premises Notes-based collaboration, new unified communications tools, Symphony productivity applications, content management, Web-based services and the potential to mash it all together with new-fangled development tools and social networking innovations pouring out of IBM's research labs are just a few of the challenges facing IBM's Lotus Software division chief, Bob Picciano.

ERP vendor Epicor said Thursday it is cutting an unspecified number of jobs as part of a plan to save US$16 million to $20 million each year.

SAP released the fourth enhancement package for its ERP 6.0 (enterprise resource planning) application on Wednesday, furthering a recent shift in product strategy that forgoes periodic full upgrades and adds new functionality on an incremental basis.

SAP on Tuesday confirmed that it has hired former Oracle applications executive John Wookey, and said he will be charged with organizing SAP's various on-demand offerings for large enterprises under a single strategy.

If you want to start an argument in a utility you ask them what is the boundary between their engineering systems and IT systems, according to a Gartner analyst.

Wages for U.S. tech jobs fell significantly in the third quarter compared to the same period last year, the IT staffing company Yoh Services said Thursday.

Saving money is of paramount importance for CIOs in today's economy, and renegotiating contracts with IT vendors may be one of the best ways to chop expenses.

As part of its Information on Demand (IOD) strategy launched nearly three years ago, IBM on Monday announced new software and services it said will help businesses better leverage their information, including best practices around building in-house competency centres, to consistently make improved business decisions in real time.

SQL Server 2008, aka "Katmai," gives SQL Server shops plenty of reasons to get excited. The best SQL Server release to date, it sports more nice new features than you can count, and the improvements extend to both performance and manageability. In a few cases, such as the Resource Governor, you'll wish Microsoft had taken the functionality a little further. But whether you manage an OLTP environment, or an OLAP environment, or both, you will most likely find Katmai compelling. It easily passes my own five-point test for upgrades.

A mainframe version of the OpenSolaris operating system is now available for download, IBM and Sun announced Monday.