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Sage Developers: we suck…official.

February 25, 2010 Humour

According to the Sage Developers’ blog: Our recommended approach for deployment of new or customised Workspaces to a customer site is to create an Add-On (SDBX) package for it. This approach makes deployment quite straight-foward. Eating our own dog-food has, however, shown that using the tool to create these packages is anything but straight-forward. To [...]

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Sage cutting jobs, outlook weak

March 19, 2009 General

It is little more than rumour being spread by Deutsche Bank in the FT but it looks like Sage will have to shed jobs: Deutsche estimated that Sage might be able to cut up to 455 staff, or 3 per cent of its total, at an exceptional cost of £18m. That would require the group [...]

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Dam breaking? CODA2go, Aqilla, e-conomic all getting traction

May 14, 2008 General

One concern for many professionals is whether saas/on-demand is ready for prime time. Is there a demand or are professionals sitting back waiting for some invisible dam to burst? Dave Turner, CODA‘s head of marketing tells me the company was ‘inundated’ at Dreamforce. Aqilla (more on them later) say they had a fantastic response to [...]

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