SMB Tech News Today; 7/31

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Jul 31, 20071 min

Mortgage is due tomorrow. * SAP buffs up BusinessOne. That's SAP's SMB package. Supposed to cover everything from accounting through inventory and HR. The new version is supposed to be easier and has new Web components. (Source: InfoWorld) * Cisco not going to kill off Linksys brand. It goes like this: Chambers hints that Cisco might fold the Linksys brand into Cisco. The world freaks out. Cisco rushes to tell a

Mortgage is due tomorrow.

* SAP buffs up BusinessOne. That’s SAP’s SMB package. Supposed to cover everything from accounting through inventory and HR. The new version is supposed to be easier and has new Web components. (Source: InfoWorld)

* Cisco not going to kill off Linksys brand. It goes like this: Chambers hints that Cisco might fold the Linksys brand into Cisco. The world freaks out. Cisco rushes to tell all us pundits that he was just joshin’ and the Linksys brand is safe. So we can all breathe easy now. Whew. Geez. (Source: PC Mag)

* Adobe gets heat over Fedex/Kinko deal. Seems Adobe’s added a button in its Acrobat software that lets users print docs directly to Fedex/Kinko locations. Cool. But smaller competitors are saying they should take it out because it makes it less easy for them to compete. Personally, I think they ought to suck it up. (Source: BetaNews)

* Gateway goes to Europe. The company is expanding into the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia with support coming from a European call center. Just good to know in case you SMB expands to these countries and needs value desktops. (Source: InformationWeek)