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Microsoft’s sales of new software have taken a hefty hit from the economic downturn but the sheer size of the company’s existing share of the market, with its software installed on many millions of machines worldwide, has seen its revenues hold up well in a belt-tightening market.

Telstra’s launch of its T-Suite retail platform aimed at SMBs has been described as a ‘carefully measured step forward on SaaS’, but one which may present small to medium sized businesses with a real dilemma.

Microsoft has brought out a new entry-level server-based solution targeted at small businesses with 15 or fewer users, which it says gives them the ability, at a modest cost, to run business applications and databases, host Web sites, and provide basic server functionality such as file and print sharing and remote access.

Adoption of unified communications solutions (UC) by companies in the Asia Pacific region is low, although China leads the region in adoption with 35% of Chinese companies having already deployed a UC solution.

Salesforce.com, an enterprise cloud computing company, has announced 18 months of record growth in Australia and New Zealand highlighted by, what it says, is increasing adoption of its cloud computing services amongst small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and enterprises.
 

D-Link Australia & New Zealand, the end-to-end networking solutions provider for business and consumers, has appointed a new manager to its marketing team, primarily to help drive sales in selected small to medium business markets like education, healthcare and transport & logistics.