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RSS licenceSAP announces positive Q4 results
News SAP has announced preliminary results showing the German ERP giant is on course to achieve its ambitious growth targets with new software licence revenue of almost E800m (£500m) in the last quarter. SAP said a... [10 Jan 2000]
You were only supposed to blow the bloody bug off
Comment The charge now being levelled at Action 2000, the UK's official watchdog, is that it fell for an enormous hoax, a millennium bug that turned out to be nothing more than a licence for the IT industry to print money. [04 Jan 2000]
Branson's lottery licence bid chooses Energis over BT
News Richard Branson's 'People's Lottery' consortium for the National Lottery has selected Energis as its telecoms provider for the bid for the next National Lottery licence. The People's Lottery has to submit its bid for the... [20 Dec 1999]
US Attorney General issues legal warning to online pharmacies
News Granholm said the companies are trading without a local Michigan licence required by state law and described them as "no better than the street corner drug pusher - all they're interested in is the money". [16 Dec 1999]
Oracle announces 40 per cent rise in Q2 profits
News Total software licence revenue grew 18 per cent on last year and, specifically, database software sales increased 17 per cent. Oracle's share price leapt today as the database company published its second quarter results... [15 Dec 1999]
Minister mulls BBC online ads
News Smith explained that he is sometimes saddened that http://www.bbc.co.uk is accessible to global viewers who have not paid the BBC licence fee, which currently funds the site. The UK government is actively considering... [08 Dec 1999]
BT and Energis poised to clash over lottery bid
News BT today played down speculation that it is looking to partner Richard Branson's Lottery Consortium in a bid for the next National Lottery licence. Reports in the Sunday newspapers asserted that both companies have been... [06 Dec 1999]
JD Edwards' profits down - but beats analysts' expectations
News However, licence fee revenues were up 35 per cent. JD Edwards has beaten analysts' expectations and posted higher than expected fourth quarter results. The company reported revenue of $257.6m compared to $307.1m for the... [02 Dec 1999]
Toplevel is in the Army now
News The Ministry of Defense (MoD) has signed a deal with Toplevel Computing to install a 4,000-seat licence of its OfficeForms package to replace paper-based forms at Army headquarters. The move follows a pilot scheme which... [01 Dec 1999]
Industry disappointed by Oftel's 'unbundling' timetable
News However, Oftel did say it will reinforce the arrangements for competitive access to the local loop with a change in BT's licence. The telecoms industry has reacted with disappointment but not surprise, to Oftel's... [30 Nov 1999]
ISP may issue writ against BT for breach of contract
News If Oftel decides to impose a final order, BT has 28 days to comply or risk losing its licence. BT could face legal action this week after ISP, NextCall, announced it was going to issue a writ against the... [29 Nov 1999]
Rail regulator slams Railtrack network
News Commenting on a report by Booz Allen & Hamilton on Railtrack's management of the network, he said that he would alter the terms of Railtrack's network licence to force it to provide the data. He said he intends to... [26 Nov 1999]
Forget share options, there's a sassier approach to building staff loyalty
Comment And the theory seems to work, with 98 per cent of SAS customers renewing their annual licence each year, making SAS the world's largest limited software company with an annual revenue of over $870m. Work a 35-hour week... [26 Nov 1999]
TescoNet blocks X-rated sites to attract family users
News SSSI claims the TescoNet deal is the largest site licence ever for online protection software. TescoNet - the ISP offshoot of Tesco - is to provide its users with free Internet surveillance software produced by Security... [16 Nov 1999]
The Bloor Perspective: The cost of downtime, the perils of patents and more on eprocurement
Comment It is also based on open source software and is free of licence issues. The cost of downtime for an ecommerce organisation is notoriously hard to quantify. Downtime has a measurable impact on the stock valuation of... [14 Nov 1999]
