According to a July survey by Sage Software, which sells accounting programs, 80% of small firms say the Internet has little or no effect on their operations, and nearly two-thirds have no plans to do business on the Web.

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According to a July survey by Sage Software, which sells accounting programs, 80% of small firms in the U.S. say that the Internet has little or no effect on their operations, and nearly two thirds have no plans to do business on the Web.

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Last week I was hired by software company Sage to do a webinar about the economy.

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This was a huge conference because Sage is a huge software company.

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Like every software company, Sage is struggling to figure out how to deal with the cloud.

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Sage, like most other larger software vendors ( Microsoft, Salesforce.com, SAP, Epicor, Macola, etc.), are downright giddy over the mobile application future.

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Just one UK computer business had made it into the FTSE, he told us, and that was Sage, the Newcastle-based accountancy software firm.

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Now brace yourself: James uses ACCPAC software, which is now owned by Sage.

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But the software touted at this conference by both Sage and its partners is the same boring, un-sexy stuff.

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But so do other major players in the software industry: Apple, Google, Oracle, Sage.

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