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COPYRIGHT 2006 Ziff Davis Media Inc.
Microsoft is by all accounts looking to Dynamics, its evolving suite of ERP applications, to be a development platform rivaling SAP AG's NetWeaver and Oracle's Fusion Middleware.
At its Convergence 2006 conference in Dallas that ended March 28, Doug Burgum, senior vice president of Microsoft Business Solutions, said a platform approach to ERP has been Microsoft's vision for the past five years--one that started when the company began acquiring ERP companies around 2001.
"Our investments in Dynamics 'are all about' taking Dynamics and turning it into a platform," said Burgum, during a press and analyst session at Convergence.
"We have a lot of elements in the marketplace, but the thing we always come back to 'is what we started' five years ago. There always was a...
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