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We look forward to working with the Corel team to leverage these strengths. Microsoft is preparing to sell its stake in struggling Canadian software maker Corel at a loss of more than $100m. Vector Capital, a San Francisco-based venture capital...
Portals provide major leverage to enterprises and represent a high-growth market in an otherwise consolidating information technology world. Enterprises, typically within lines of business rather than IT, are already spending on web services...
They tend to be more intimate with their customers - they have that inbuilt advantage of having management closer to their customers too - and they need to ensure that they leverage that and not inhibit it," he told silicon.com.
Sauer said: "If you have one single namespace, there's an opportunity there [for Skype] to leverage that space by integrating third party LDAP, which has been built into some large identity management systems in large enterprises.
Forrester's advice to IT buyers is to choose one or two of the "big four" IT vendors to anchor the company's IT strategy but retain competitive leverage in architecture and purchasing and open up to the "four horsemen" to drive productive change.