Open Source Software Turns 20-Something

(Source: LinuxInsider.com) “Corporate leaders grew up in an enterprise environment where someplace within was a procurement officer who established relationships with the sales force at a software company,” noted Tim Mackey, senior technical evangelist at Black Duck Software. That relationship grew around the support structure for using that

PS4 hardware sales slow to 9m in Q3 – while software sales grow

(Source: MCV) Sales of PlayStation hardware slowed to 9m units worldwide in Q3. That’s down from the 9.7m units that Sony shipped in Q3 last year. It could be viewed that hardware sales are reaching saturation, although it’s hard to compare the two quarters like-for-like as last year saw the launch of the PS4 Pro in […]

CallidusCloud Named a Visionary in First-ever Gartner Magic Quadrant for Configure, Price and Quote Application Suites

(Source: GlobeNewswire ) Callidus Software Inc. (NASDAQ:CALD), a global leader in cloud-based sales, marketing, learning, and customer experience solutions, announced today that it has been named a Visionary in Gartner’s first-ever Magic Quadrant for Configure, Price and Quote

Nintendo Switch sales have already surpassed the Wii U with 14.86 million

(Source: App Trigger) That overtakes the Wii U’s lifetime hardware sales total of 13.56 million between its November 17, 2012 launch and when it was discontinued on January 31, 2017. The Wii U still leads the Nintendo Switch in software sales, as the Wii U has sold 101.65 million software units compared to the Nintendo Switch’s […]

SAP buys $2.4bn US software firm

(Source: ITWeb) Acquiring US sales software firm Callidus, in a deal announced on Tuesday, will help SAP in its ambition to become the market leader in so-called front-office software used in sales and marketing, building on its strength in back-office software that is used by companies to maintain control over far-flung multinational …