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Enterprise
Application Software
Cooling
off
Akhtar Pasha says that while the EAS category cooled off in
2008, the market still saw some humongous deals. CRM had its
share of adherents from government, insurance, telecom and
SMBs. 2009 will see customers focus on value-based strategies
leading to smaller deal sizes
Document
Management Systems
Managing
unstructured content
Document Management Systems are still evolving and banks,
telcos, manufacturers and SMBs have started investing in this
technology. By Vinita Gupta
Infrastructure
management
Focus
on the core business and outsource the rest
2008 bore witness to many interesting infrastructure management
projects. Sudipta Dev discovers that the dynamism in the market
is all set to be replicated in 2009 as well
Databases
Powered
by business application deployments
Increasing government spending on e-Governance projects and
the demand for enterprise software are some of the factors
driving the DBMS market in India, writes Varun Aggarwal
Server OS
A
tale of virtualization and interoperability
The virtualization component is now part of the OS. Linux
offers value-for-money while UNIX vendors are doing their
bit to increase performance. Meanwhile, Microsoft is working
on a low-cost version of Windows Server By Akhtar Pasha
Security
software
Growth
continues
With the threat scenario becoming murkier by the day, the
adoption of security software across verticals continues,
writes Nivedan Prakash
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