Daily Links 11/14/2012: Air Force cans ERP project after $1 billion

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Apple opening Willow Grove store, expanding at King of Prussia Mall (Philadelphia Business Journal)

SAP plans to add 'mission-critical' features to HANA in-memory database
SAP is getting HANA ready for large-scale ERP deployments (Infoworld)

SAP bolsters cloud portfolio with Financials OnDemand
(ZDNet)

SAP goes big on Windows 8 with six new apps (Computerworld)

Air Force scraps massive ERP project after racking up $1B in costs (Computerworld)
Oracle won initial software contract over SAP; CSC served as systems integrator. Of course, SAP has had its own issues with the Army ERP project, which might indicate that its the customer who is the ultimate problem, not the software.

Salesforce.com's Complexity Brings CIOs, Partners Together (CIO.com)

Trident Capital Update and Areas of Investment Interest (Trident Capital Blog)

Google Fiber is live in Kansas City, real-world speeds at 700Mbps (Ars Technica)

Philadelphia Becomes Epicenter for Information-Sharing in the Manufacturing Industry (News from Rockwell Automation)




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