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As the leading enterprise-software companies begin to snap up high-growth players in the booming field of people management and optimization, pre-IPO Workday is confronting some new challenges as it remains fully committed to going it alone among competitors that are 10 times, 70 times, or even 100 times larger than Workday.
Taleo, which Oracle said last week it intends to acquire for $1.9 billion, was a long-time partner of....