- Great Plains announces an accounting series for IBM computers. - The Great Plains Accounting Series for the Macintosh introduced. 1987 - Great Plains begins research and development on Dexterity, ...

REDMOND, WASH. (CBS.MW) - In the wake of its earnings warning, Microsoft said Thursday it'll pay $45.65 a share to buy Great Plains Software in hopes of boosting the technology giant's take in the ...

The great software octopus that is Microsoft just got bigger. With the acquisition of Great Plains Software Inc. in a $1.1 billion stock swap, announced yesterday, the Redmond giant is spreading its ...

Microsoft Corp. agreed to buy Great Plains Software Inc. for $1.1 billion in stock, as the leading software maker seeks to improve its line of business tools for small and medium-sized companies.

Doug Burgum, who as chief executive of Great Plains Software guided the company through its recent acquisition by Microsoft Corp., has been named head of a new Microsoft division aimed at providing ...

Microsoft Corp.'s Business Solutions group next month plans to release the first iteration of its much-touted retooled and rebranded set of ERP applications, Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0. The application ...

But Doug Burgum is not a typical software exec. Burgum, who leads Microsoft Business Solutions as senior vice president, talked last week as he always does at the annual MBS Convergence event, but ...

A caricature of North Dakota computer software visionary Doug Burgum peers from a cork bulletin board over Spider Johnk's shoulder. Boxes containing posters and props for Sunday's start of a three-day ...

The Navision A/S brand will soon be dead, long live Navision. Microsoft’s second acquisition of a mid-market enterprise applications company in 14 months will enable it to extend its customer ...