Apotheker, the former head of SAP, indicated the company would be buying software companies specializing in products for cloud computing, for example.
Most of the time, companies buying software are relieved to have an attentive third party who is responsible for making an implementation work.
So far Oracle has shown that it can make money by buying software firms, getting rid of overlapping products and unnecessary overheads, but otherwise leaving them much as they were.
Will consumers miss loading their older Windows software or buying new Windows desktop software?
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In buying Rational Software, IBM again plugs a gap that remains at its competitor.
Many of my clients run out of money after buying their software and hardware.
To make buying such software a crime would be seen as restriction of individual freedoms.
The knock-on effect from consumers and businesses who are buying less software and hardware because cash-strapped banks are reluctant to lend them money will be far larger.
Most people tend to renew their subscription on line rather than buying new software, and that makes Kaspersky rank around No. 4 in the worldwide IT security space.
That's when RIM announced it was buying QNX Software Systems, the company whose operating system would ultimately provide the basis for BlackBerry 10 (and the PlayBook before it).
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Buying business software is a headache.
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He notes that a proprietary survey found that the number of resellers with more customers buying design software from Autodesk in the October quarter fell to 46% from 80% in the previous quarter, with 38% indicating sales were down more than 10%.
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Because the proposal defines a software purchase as buying a license to use the software on specific agreement terms, it differs from copyright law that governs the purchase of software copies.
You are still buying hardware, software, and virtualization technology, and owning gear.
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Similarly, many high-tech Asian companies, however strapped for dollars, will have no option but to keep buying parts and software from American companies.
In June, the company announced it was buying a small software company, GeCAD Software, with the aim of selling virus protection as a subscription service.
In producing applications for mobile phones, independent software developers historically have faced a big challenge: how to write software that works across phones without buying every device and testing their software on it.
Oracle, the database-software behemoth, is buying Sun Microsystems, which sells big computers as well as software ranging from Java tools to open-source databases.
Besides biotech, gurus were also buying new positions in software companies, most notably Shanda Interactive Entertainment and Epicor Software.
In January 2001, it introduced Apple iTunes, software for buying and managing multimedia content that is now baked into every Apple.
Hosting your own IT means buying the hardware and software at a regular basis, recruiting and training dedicated staff and struggling with painful evolutions.
Besides biotech, gurus were also buying new positions in software companies, most notably Shanda Interactive Entertainment (nasdaq: SNDA - news - people ) and Epicor Software (nasdaq: EPIC - news - people ).
There is no way for a consumer to know whether the software they are buying is legitimate or malicious.
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In addition, VMware has championed much open source software creation, buying SpringSource, a tools and service provider for open source communities.
For example, there are some companies buying licenses of Predictive Coding software for unlimited use and applying it to all matters.
For remote deposit of checks, Wells Fargo again built its own system rather than buying a check reader and software from a vendor.
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When Jesse was in high school, he noticed that farmers around the area spent a good amount of money buying clunky desktop farm management software.
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"In the last year we started to see a combination of people buying each other's software partners so that they would buy into each other's accounts, " the senior executive said.
She has her headset on and is in the middle of trying to sell an indifferent manager at a big insurance company on the idea of buying a very expensive database software package.
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