The other shoe fell when Goldman Sachs analyst Tom Berquist downgraded i2, along with a raft of other software companies, due to his concerns about the crumbling economy.
In the aftermath of a breach, it's natural to ask, "Where did we go wrong?" Perhaps your business employed consultants, brought in a raft of security software and took positive steps to shut down vulnerabilities.
With Microsofts own Hotmail, along with mail programs from Google and Yahoo!, a whole raft of client-side software has been made unnecessary.
Mark Hurd, the boss of NCR, for example, is betting some of his firm's money on the emergence of a new raft of venture-capital-financed software firms specialising in data analysis.These start-ups, he says, will build on the investments that big companies have made in his own firm's data-mining technology, which allows them to capture and quiz information about their customers and suppliers.
Apple and its iOS 5 is facing a vast raft of challengers running Google's Android software - from Samsung to Panasonic and many more.
Apple has released an update for its iOS 7 software to deal with a raft of complaints from users about motion sickness, problems with iMessage and poor calibration of level sensors on the iPhone 5S.
Swype has also added the ability for mobile users to download its keyboard to compatible devices — but its largest market is from being pre-loaded on a raft of (mostly) Android devices (SwiftKey also sells its software to OEMs).
Yet Oracle needs to secure its future especially now, as old-guard software vendors get undercut by a raft of cheap newcomers in the open-source movement.
Cloud computing could transform how software is developed and used, creating a raft of new online services and applications for businesses and consumers.
And there is a raft of encryption methods to stall, if not stymie, would-be software and digital media pirates.A number of firms have sprung up to provide authenticating technologies.
