The joint law drafted by the Justice and Economic ministries implements an EU commission guideline. However, the politicians in charge of the law, Werner Müller, minister of economic affairs and Herta Däubler-Gmelin, minister of justice do not...
The companies have blamed "adverse economic and market conditions" for the failure of the deal. The merger with Agile Software would have filled the gap left by i2's departure, providing technology essential to Ariba's new value chain management...
While both companies have attributed the failed merger to poor economic conditions, there is speculation among some analysts that Agile was unhappy with a change made to Ariba's accounting method and pushed to terminate the merger.
Current research on IT spending leads us to believe that improving economic conditions will loosen selected IT purse strings in the relatively near future (first half of 2004). However, organisations will find viable PPM functionality from Tier 1...
Mark McDonald, group VP and head of research for Gartner Executive Programs, said in a statement: "Given economic conditions, CIOs should be prepared and have a contingency plan for both increases or decreases in the next 90 days by the end of the...
All three of the Indian outsourcers blamed challenging global economic conditions, with Infosys warning the next quarter may continue to be difficult as companies postponed decisions on outsourcing. Peter Allen, partner and managing director of TPI...