In this regular weekly feature, CRM News and Resources gathers together the latest CRM articles online. This week’s articles discuss the future of hosted applications:

Siebel expands hosted business despite shortfall

From ZDNet:

Despite reporting that its second-quarter revenue would fall well short of Wall Street estimates, Siebel Systems’ growth of its hosted applications business could signal improving prospects for the company.

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The Hosted Challenge

From Line56:

There is strong reason to believe that the hosted model will become just as important as the licensed model it is trying to unseat. Some proof comes from licensed software vendors themselves. Siebel, harried from below by Salesforce.com, has devoted a lot of energy to developing its own hosted product, leveraging the assistance of partner IBM and acquiring UpShot to help it along. Even SAP, the king of licensed software, has upcoming plans for hosted CRM.

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