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Major vendors who traditionally hold sway in the business intelligence and performance management software market are under increasing pressure to retain their marketshare from technologies like software-as-a-service (SaaP), pre-packaged appliances and open source.

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.

Hewlett Packard outstripped IBM in revenue in the fourth quarter of last year despite the global economic downturn with particularly strong demand for its products in the US market, according to the latest business benchmark study by research firm, Technology Business Research (TBR).

IBM has been selected by Melbourne’s Victoria University (VU) to design and build the university’s first green data centre.  

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.

As the economic crisis continues, reducing the cost of IT operations is a key consideration for many European organisations, with decision makers actively addressing the issue and looking for ways to improve cost effectiveness.

A report just released on the IT industry says that IT services firm, Accenture, is showing that it is not immune to the challenging economic environment, with the company reporting a top line decline of 6% in US currency , but up 3% in local currency, for its fiscal second quarter of 2009.
 

Server shipments have plummeted in the Asia Pacific region as the economic crisis sweeping the region and the rest of the world worsens.

Sybase enterprise and mobile software vendor, has released a new version of iAnywhere mobile office with expanded iPhone support and availability on the iPhone App Store.

S4i Systems, a global document and disk management software provider for IBM Systems i, has appointed a new director of marketing and channel development in a bid to further expand the awareness and recognition of the company.