Salesforce: Software is hand-to-hand combat
News Company wants the world to take up its software-as-a-service model, and company president Marc Benioff says he will 'change the consciousness of the industry' to do it [08 May 2008]
Salesforce offers hosted accounting software
News Accounting company Coda and on-demand specialist Salesforce.com claim to have come up with a way for companies to handle their accounting software without having to pay for a full-scale application [06 May 2008]
All SAP apps to be native on BlackBerry
News RIM and SAP have announced a 'co-innovation' partnership that will see all the latter's apps made natively available on the BlackBerry, starting with CRM [02 May 2008]
OOXML expert: ODF standard is broken
News The ISO standard for ODF documents is impossible to implement, says an expert who has now found both OpenOffice and Microsoft Office 2007 non-standard compliant [02 May 2008]
- OpenOffice defence: Brown is using the wrong version - PeterJudge
- It is quite simple - RCWeir
- Micrsoft committed to ISO version of OOXML - Albert
- Bottom line: no featureful implementations of ISO/IEC:26300 OpenDocument - Marbux
- My main objections to OOXML are not technical - 1000013186
- Not inconsistent at all - RCWeir
- 'Smoke test' or 'Smoke screen'? - kurizocan2
Analysts: Delay to SAP's Saas rollout no surprise
Analysis The company has pushed back its target for launching its Business ByDesign on-demand software — news that could prove a boon for Saas vendors [02 May 2008]
UK standards body taken to court over OOXML
News The UK Unix & Open Systems Users Group has launched a High Court challenge against the decision by the BSI to approve Microsoft's nascent document format [01 May 2008]
- Good Luck - Moley
- Yes - more balance - Sothis
Google apps on the Salesforce platform 
Video Salesforce has demonstrated Google apps operating on its platform, as the two companies announced a joint cloud-computing venture [29 Apr 2008]
Actinic Business 9
Review Our only criticism of Actinic Business is that it could be overwhelming for newcomers and overkill for sole traders. But if you have delusions of e-commerce grandeur, jump right in. [29 Apr 2008]
Coders claim bypass of Vista security feature
News Developers at free-software firm NeoSmart claim Vista's User Account Control is 'easy to code around' and 'only there to give the impression of security' [28 Apr 2008]
- designed to "annoy users" - ator1940
Microsoft demos Live Mesh
Video At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Amit Mital, general manager of Live Mesh at Microsoft, shows off the recently announced 'software plus services' platform [25 Apr 2008]
Trampoline bounces into enterprise social computing
News UK start-up Trampoline Systems's enterprise social-computing software helps workers find and track others in their organisation with specific knowledge [23 Apr 2008]
- deja vu - Brian Murray
BT to sell NetSuite on-demand software
News As well as offering NetSuite's business-management apps to SME customers, the telco will soon offer CRM software from SugarCRM [23 Apr 2008]
Microsoft unveils 'Live Mesh' strategy
News Chief software architect Ray Ozzie has laid out his vision for how data will be shared between devices and online applications [23 Apr 2008]
Analyst: Microsoft aiming Dynamics CRM at SMEs
News Springboard Research claims Microsoft's CRM tool may be insufficient for larger companies, but meets smaller enterprises' needs well [22 Apr 2008]
Critics brand OOXML a Microsoft 'marketing tool'
News XML author Tim Bray has accused Microsoft of pursuing OOXML standardisation for marketing purposes, while others claim the ISO process is 'broken' and 'politicised' [18 Apr 2008]
SAP, Salesforce debate future of hosted apps
Video The co-founder and chairman of SAP, Hasso Plattner, and Salesforce.com co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff debate the future of enterprise software [14 Apr 2008]
Google and Salesforce team up
News After being linked unofficially for some time, the two companies have announced an alliance to extend their CRM software message [14 Apr 2008]
Microsoft publishes more protocol documentation
News The software giant has posted online another 14,000 pages of protocol documentation for its programs, bringing the total so far to 44,000 [09 Apr 2008]
EC investigating Microsoft over OOXML
News The Commission is questioning Microsoft and some European countries to find out whether the company abused its market position in its efforts to get OOXML standardised [03 Apr 2008]
Accenture and Sun aim to widen security scope
News The companies are working together to tackle the growing security threats posed by computer fraud and terrorism [02 Apr 2008]
Australia abstains on final OOXML vote
News The country's peak standards development body has revealed it carried on its motion to abstain from voting on the status of Microsoft's document format [31 Mar 2008]
