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It doesn't happen often, but within many organizations both the business users and the IT staff are asking the same question:

Why can we only deploy two new web applications in a month?

The annual Foley & Lardner study on Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and its financial impact reveals that out-of-pocket compliance costs are continuing to climb.

This is happening despite an overall decrease in compliance costs. How is this happening? The biggest culprits are rising legal fees and audit expenses.

But while we'd like to add more fuel to the fire, Lora Bentley over at IT Business Edge has found a few firms that attest costs are going down, not up.

Today at the 45th Annual Aerospace and Defense Contract Management Conference in California, Open Text announced its latest version of Livelink ECM - Contract Lifecycle Management.

The ECM firm built Contract Lifecycle Management to specifically address contact creation, negotiation, fulfillment and renewals issues.

This week Google announced the acquisition of Postini, a communications security and compliance company, for US$ 625 million.

Google has made inroads into the enterprise and higher education markets with notable additions to their Google Apps offering. But Postini's capabilities are an entirely different value proposition, making the search giant into a contender for the long, arduous battle with legal and corporate compliance concerns.

Marched out as the universal solution to what's ailing American business, an issue perhaps too soily for the spin cycle, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) is now characterized by the skyrocketing costs hitting the businesses that work to comply with it. And in 2007 the debate over Sarbanes-Oxley only rages on.