Microsoft to Reshuffle Its ERP Deck?

Microsoft has pushed back the 4.0 release of its high-end ERP offering to 2006 and is hinting it will soon move some its ERP wares into 'maintenance mode.'

Axapta, one of Microsoft's four ERP products, has fallen victim to Microsoft's slip-date curse. Meanwhile, it sounds as if Microsoft has started to take measures to streamline its stable of four different ERP lines.

Axapta is one of four different ERP products currently offered by MBS. Microsoft has maintained that it doesn't consider having four different ERP products a problem. Each one is targeted at a different segment of the market, company officials have said, and all four will continue to be enhanced for the foreseeable future.

On Thursday, however, Microsoft chief financial officer John Connors said during the company's quarterly earnings call that Microsoft has decided to move some of its MBS wares into maintenance mode. He did not offer specifics as to which, if any, of the ERP products would be sidelined.

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