Deltek Announces Release Date for Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2007 Results

Deltek Announces Release Date for Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2007 Results: "Deltek... announced today that it will release its fourth quarter and full-year 2007 financial results on Wednesday, February 20, 2008. The Company will host a conference call at 5:00 p.m. ET to discuss these results.

The dial-in number for the conference call is 1-877-381-6419 or 1-706-643-9496 (no password required). Interested parties may also go to the Investor Relations section of the Company's Web site (http://investor.deltek.com) to listen to the earnings call. Those unable to participate in the live call may hear a rebroadcast by dialing 1-800-642-1687 or 1-706-645-9291 (pass code: 30713090)."

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Era of big acquisitions largely over, Forrester says | InfoWorld | News | 2008-01-30 | By Chris Kanaracus, IDG News Service

Era of big acquisitions largely over, Forrester says | InfoWorld | News | 2008-01-30 | By Chris Kanaracus, IDG News Service: "IBM will be the most aggressive with acquisitions and may go after packaged applications, a field it has largely avoided to date, according to the report.

'The most likely scenario involves smaller acquisitions of key ISVs building on Websphere. But if IBM makes a move for packaged apps to compete with Oracle, top apps targets could include IBM partners like Infor, IFS, Lawson, or even SAP. Industry-specific targets could include Amdocs, Deltek, and Primavera Systems,' the authors state.

Wang said he was comfortable making this prediction despite IBM's insistence that it has no designs on packaged applications. 'Last year, they spent the whole year saying they were never going to buy a BI vendor,' Wang said, referring to IBM's deal to buy Cognos."

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BEA Accepts 8.5 Billion Bid From Oracle - Mergers, Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Hedge Funds -- DealBook - New York Times

BEA Accepts 8.5 Billion Bid From Oracle - Mergers, Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Hedge Funds -- DealBook - New York Times: "Oracle said Wednesday that it will finally acquire BEA Systems, an enterprise software maker, for about $8.5 billion in cash."

Costpoint Web uses BEA Weblogic as the application server. With Oracle owning BEA and Oracle simultaneously competing with Deltek in the ERP market space, it would be interesting to see if Deltek begins to support other J2EE application servers such as IBM's WebSphere.

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Checks and Balances, Inc. Introduces Ultimate Software and Deltek GCS Premier Interface - PR.com

Checks and Balances, Inc. Introduces Ultimate Software and Deltek GCS Premier Interface - PR.com: "Checks and Balances, Inc., a national provider of Human Resource Outsourcing Solutions and Services announces the general availability of Ultimate Software for Deltek GCS Premier clients. The introduction of this interface supports the company’s strategy of providing Deltek GCS users with a comprehensive and cost effective Human Resource Management System (HRMS) / Payroll Solution"

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Deltek Appoints Taylor Macdonald as Vice President of Worldwide Channels and Sales... | Reuters

Deltek Appoints Taylor Macdonald as Vice President of Worldwide Channels and Sales... | Reuters: "Taylor Macdonald has been appointed Vice President of Worldwide Channels and Sales Alliances. In this position, Macdonald will be responsible for managing and developing Deltek's global channel and sales alliance operations. Macdonald will report directly to Deltek's Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales, Carolyn Parent.

Macdonald brings over 19 years of experience to Deltek and has been named one of the 'Top 100 Most Influential People' in the accounting profession by Accounting Today on five separate occasions. He was also named Top Channel Executive by VARBusiness Magazine, made the top ten list of CRN.com's 'Most Influential Channel Chiefs of 2007', and was named to CRN Magazine's list of 'Top 50 Channel Champions' for the past 3 years. Most recently, Macdonald served as the Executive Vice President, Channel and Sales Operations, NA of Sage Software where he led the design and implementation of all U.S. channel programs."

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