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	LINKEDIN TODAY powered by + You are getting weekly emails | Change to Daily Hi A Better, check out the top 5 news articles for you this week See all headlines What Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, And SAP Don't Tell Customers The four big software vendors -- Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, and SAP -- have hidden motives that customers need to understand, otherwise they might be pushed into buying products and services that don't fit their needs. That's the...   businessinsider.com   Shared by 2788 professionals on LinkedIn, including: 74 Salesforce.com employees 47 IBM employees 20 SAP employees Peggy Noonan On Steve Jobs And Why Big Companies Die Steve Jobs told us that when the sales people take over the firm starts to die. But it's also the accountants. And it doesn't have to happen. There is another way.   forbes.com   Shared by 1283 professionals on LinkedIn, including: 18 IBM employees 10 Microsoft employees 8 Oracle employees The 25 Worst Passwords of 2011 Revealed If you see your password below, STOP! Do not finish reading this post and immediately go change your password -- before you forget. You will probably make changes in several places since passwords tend ...   finance.yahoo.com   Shared by 691 professionals on LinkedIn, including: 7 LinkedIn employees 5 Oracle employees 4 Anne Arundel Community College employees Steve Ballmer's Nightmare: How Microsoft's Business Actually Could Collapse Microsoft has sales of nearly $70 billion a year, annual profits approaching $20 billion, nearly $60 billion in cash, and is still growing sales around 10% per year. But somehow, many people are convinced that Microsoft is going to collapse.   businessinsider.com Trending in Information Technology and Services   Shared by 322 professionals on LinkedIn, including: 8 IBM employees 5 Microsoft employees 4 Cisco Systems employees Firms 'ill prepared for IT failure' EMC says firms need to put more focus on backup and recovery systems Almost three-quarters of firms and public sector organisations across nine European countries may not fully recover...   bbc.co.uk Trending in Computer Software and Information Technology and Services   Shared by 215 professionals on LinkedIn, including: 7 Softcat Ltd employees 6 Head Resourcing employees 5 IBM employees You may also be interested in...   Computer Software »   Watch Steve Jobs brainstorm with the NeXT team in this fascinating video Internet »   Here's How To REALLY Use LinkedIn Telecommunications »   Nokia Siemens Networks to Cut 17,000 Jobs by 2013 Better. Faster. The New LinkedIn Mobile App for iPhone and Android. Don't want to receive email notifications? Adjust your message settings LinkedIn values your privacy. At no time has LinkedIn made your email address available to any other LinkedIn user without your permission. © 2011, LinkedIn Corporation