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Microsoft readies barrage of ERP products. Company set to unleash CRM, ERM, HRP, PSA wares [InfoWorld: Top News]

In the world of business management/accounting software for small to medium businesses (i.e. mid-market) few people realize just how rapidly consolidation is taking place. We’re soon to be left with a handful or two of companies from the Oracle, Siebel, Peoplesoft, SAP world down through the Microsoft (Great Plains, Solomon, Realworld, Navision), SouthWare and Best Software ranks. Below that we see true vertical market applications and the likes of Intuit. BEA Systems, Lawson, J.D. Edwards, Ross and others are in there somewhere, but the list is getting pretty thin.