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    market changes in telecoms, software and IT services

Cognos provides IBM with a logical extension to its information management product portfolio and plugs some functional gaps in the company's Information on Demand (IOD) vision.

Following on from a strong fiscal 2007, Microsoft has had a very good fiscal 1Q08. Its lead in the software market still seems unassailable.

IBM is moving from strength to strength thanks to its success in integrating once disparate assets to deliver true business solutions, rather than just IT solutions.

Symantec has grown rapidly both by organic growth and by acquisition. It is now much broader than security and storage management. It has an enviable financial record and an impressive product set.

It is still early to predict how well Teradata will fare as an independent firm. But it's certainly no start-up and needs to ensure its momentum continues by regularly delivering new product releases and enhancements and also product expansion and innova

IT organizations are rapidly realizing that there is no "one plan fits all" in an application portfolio modernization and rationalization initiative. Rather, there are many legacy modernization options, forcing the determination of transition status