Economy Forces IT To Cope With Dumped Products

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Gregg davis, CIO at Webcor Builders Inc., became concerned last fall when OraclernCorp. bought Primavera Systems Inc., because Webcor was a heavy user of Prima-vera's SureTrak construction scheduling software.rnSure enough, once the deal closed last November, Oracle stopped supporting SureTrak as a stand-alone application and rolled it into the Primavera P6 project management suite, Davis said.rnProtests to Oracle from Davis and other construction industry CIOs fell on deaf ears, and Webcor was forced to purchase a priceyrnlicense for what he called the "behemoth" P6 package.rnHe added that Webcor is still evaluating potential replacement offerings.rnSan Mateo, Calif.-based Webcor faced a similar situation early last year, when the $1.4 billion merger of Dell Inc. and EqualLogic Inc. led to the premature end of life for the EqualLogic iSCSI storage-area network arrays that Webcor had hoped to use for several years.