Hmm, why does this "news" not sound all that "new"?
Microsoft Corp. is expected today to start shipping the first version of its revamped set of Axapta ERP applications, dubbed Dynamics AX 4.0.
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The Dynamics AX 4.0 software is the latest piece of Microsoft's next-generation Dynamics software portfolio, which the company said offers tight integration with its infrastructure software and with other Microsoft and third-party business applications.
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Micosoft has already released its Dynamics GP 9.0 (formerly Great Plains) and Dynamics SL (formerly Solomon) applications.
Man, this sounds so familiar ...
If you currently run any of Microsoft's accounting and management packages: Great Plains, Solomon, Navision or Axapta, you will be running a very different set of packages in the near future. Microsoft's Project Green will consolidate, replace and expand on these packages, integrating them fully with other Microsoft software.[link|http://www.aaxnet.com/editor/edit035.html|6-Nov-03]
Microsoft turns another group of "partners" into victims as it enters the Customer Relationship Management software market.
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Microsoft promised it's software development "partners" it would never compete with them in the field of business management software, and a whole lot of software developers believed them, developed only for Windows, and ridiculed any competing environment.
Two years ago, I predicted Microsoft would purchase Great Plains, issue a low-end version of Great Plains accounting, and begin driving all other accounting software vendors out of the Windows software market. This has all come to pass, with Great Plains purchased a year ago and the low end package announced about six months later. Microsoft Great Plains' announced earnings targets require the demise of the rest of the industry.
[link|http://www.aaxnet.com/news/M020323.html|23-Mar-02]