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Revenge of the Software Customer (The Motley Fool) - A 2007 investor's guide to software as a service.

Cisco to Buy Maker of Security Software (New York Times) - Cisco Systems agreed to buy IronPort Systems for $830 million to push into the security software market.

Salesforce.com to Participate in 2007 Citigroup Software Investor Field Trip (SYS-CON Media) - Salesforce.com , the market and technology leader in on-demand business services, today announced that the company will be participating in the Citigroup Software Investor Field Trip scheduled for Thursday, January 11, 2007.

Google acquires stake in China software provider (People's Daily) - The Internet search giant Google Inc. has bought a stake in a Chinese software provider as part of the company's bid to extend its dominance beyond Internet searches to other online services, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

Adopting an Open Source Approach to Software Development, Distribution, and Licensing (Linux World) - Since the beginning of the software industry, nearly every software company in the world has followed the same business model: its own employees develop the software, which is closely held intellectual property, the software is delivered to clients in binary form, and users run the licensed software on their own computers. Today, this model has been challenged by a new paradigm: open source. ...

Oops: County assessing software contract expired at end of year (Chesterton Tribune) - The county’s software program that contains property assessment data has been down all week, preventing assessors from being able to enter information on homes and other property.

112dB Software Announces Morgana Vintage Software Sampler (Harmony Central) - 112dB Software has announced Morgana, an exciting new vintage software sampler. Morgana is an authentic representation of an early digital sampler, designed to be musical rather than accurate. Per-voice, Morgana offers extensively modeled VCFs, amp and filter envelopes.

MacTank Rolls Out Version 2 of its E-mail Archive Software (The Mac Observer) - MacTank Software has upgraded MailTank, its e-mail archiving and remote access software to version 2

Victorian Epicure to implement BatchMaster software (Computer Business Review) - Canadian food and cookware firm Victorian Epicure is set to implement the new BatchMaster enterprise resource planning software it recently ordered from BatchMaster Software.

Why Software Sucks, And Can Something Be Done About It? (Slashdot) - CPNABEND tipped us to a story carried on the Fox News site, pointing out that a lot of programmers don't understand their users. David Platt, author of the new book 'Why Software Sucks ... And What You Can Do About It', looks at the end user experience with end user eyes. While technically inclined individuals tend to want control, Platt argues, most people just want something that works. On the ...