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• SOA and web services revitalise best-of-breed apps

  If there was any question about whether the ERP market was in turmoil, the recent shakeup in senior management at ERP stalwart SAP that pushed out rising star Shai Agassi should have answered it.

• The true cost of off-the-shelf applications

  In the early days of IT, we would never suggest to users that they should adjust their operations to the requirements of the software we were developing. It was always the other way around. We wrote software so that it worked exactly as the users requested. After all, the users were the clients.

• Cybercrims focus on Macs and zero-day

  The SANS Institute has warned of a steep increase in critical security holes in Apple’s Mac OS X operating system and in previously undiscovered (“zero day”) vulnerabilities in web browsers.

• Calling all mobile developers

  Telecom, Microsoft, mobile download platform provider Handango and mobility information portal geekzone are running a mobility developers’ contest and calling for entries.