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- Figuring the value of software
- Phil Wainewright's discussion about the cost of running highly scalable SaaS applications like SuccessFactors comes at the right time. He says: Speaking in the opening keynote of SIIA OnDemand in San Jose this morning, SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard let slip a statistic that set several...
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
- NetSuite's Zach Nelson on competition, cost, the Next Big Thing
- Last week I met with Zach Nelson, CEO NetSuite in circumstances very similar to those when I recently met with SAP. There are obvious comparisons: SAP provided a hands on individual demonstration of Business ByDesign, NetSuite limited its demo to some pre-canned scenarios demonstrated by...
- Blog posts 2009-09-28
- ClarkConnect becomes ClearOS
- ClearOS looks promisingWe have been using ClarkConnect as our office all-in-one sercver, CleaOS' predecessor and have been quite happy with it. This new move with what seems to be a fresh new look and new management and clear business direction can make it a serious contender in the SME market.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-25
- AMD's Charlie Boswell: With cloud computing, 'follow the money' [interview]
- Andrew, thanks for doing a real interviewThese days, when most bloggers just link to a PR wire story for their source, ZDNet surprises us with an actual interview. An interesting interview to boot! There is still hope for online journalism. Thanks Andrew.RE: AMD's Charlie Boswell: With cloud computing, 'follow the...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-11
- SAP and SME's: an update
- I've just returned from spending a day immersed in SAP at a London hotel with European and South African SME customers, channel partners and the Business ByDesign team. It's been fascinating. While the focus was on ByDesign, I met with All-In-One customers. It provided a useful...
- Blog posts 2009-09-11
- Friday rant: Software maintenance; it's all Manny's fault
- I love it when a CPA comes out batting for the buy side. In Business Week, Gene Marks CPA points the finger of blame for software maintenance firmly in the direction of Meir M. "Manny" Lehman: It all began in the 1960s, when Lehman predicted that changes in software...
- Blog posts 2009-08-21
- Gartner financial apps MarketScope
- Earlier today I saw Oracle crowing about getting a top slot in Gartner's Marketscope for financial applications. They weren't the only ones. SAP took a similar top slot. But then all the others Gartner looked at: Epicor, Lawson, Microsoft, Exact, Infor, Sage and Unit 4 Agresso scored 'positive.' Odd you...
- Blog posts 2009-08-17
- Intel urges SMEs: Don't delay PC refresh
- Intel urges SMEs: Don't delay PC refresh wow companies want you to buy stuff from them...details at 11I'd be interested in knowing how they arrived at the correlation between......older PCs and malware. I can't see why an older system would be any more likely to get malware than a brand...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-29
- What really happened with SAP Business ByDesign?
- Many of us who have been following the SAP Business ByDesign saga have used a combination of first hand accounts, intuition, inference and plain guess work to figure out what's been going on with the product. Or is it service? As far as I can gather, those commenting in detail...
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
- Cheap jibe sullies SAP's SaaS strategy
- Cheap jibe sullies SAP's SaaS strategyYou got it TOTALLY wrong!"The message this sends is that Wookey?s initiative doesn?t have the wholehearted support of SAP?s board."No, that's not it at all. [b]The message this sends is that Force.com from Salesforce.com is not a viable competitor in the large enterprise.[/b] Are you...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-18
- CIO Jury: Let's wait on Windows 7
- CIO Jury: Let's wait on Windows 7Who are these companies and who cares what their CIO's sayNever heard of any of these companies, and I could care less what any of their CIO's say on this subject.Why not ask the CIO of a Fortune 500 company?This is no surprise.It would...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-10
- IDC: Windows still leading server market, but revenues down 29 percent
- IDC: Windows still leading server market, but revenues down 29 percentI'm willing to bet.......that while those sales figures dropped across the board the actual installation of new servers didn't drop nearly as much.How is it measured ?Estimated sales blah blah blah. How do they estimate ? My company buys servers...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-28
- In search of SAP Business ByDesign
- Mike Krigsman has a post that seeks to put ByDesign into a hopeful light. Based on his conversations I'm not surprised he came away with a glowing customer report. Customers I've spoken with have been rightfully delighted with what SAP is offering and the roadmap they're presenting. As...
- Blog posts 2009-05-18
- Understanding SAP's Business byDesign SaaS strategy
- Understanding SAP's Business byDesign SaaS strategyyes, butyou heard some of the same comments I did at Sapphire. The CFO has the product on a tight leash in terms of qualifying new customers. They have old filters for a new computing paradigm. Not sure if they will ever find this model...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-16
- SAP keynote: Leo Apotheker's appeal for clarity
- Leo Apotheker, co-CEO at SAP has just concluded his keynote speech with a call for 'clarity' in enterprises of all sizes. "The past 10 months have indeed been a turning point for all of us...it is time for clarity...time to be clear...We all face a new reality and it's not...
- Blog posts 2009-05-12
- A Guide to WAN Application Delivery for the SME Market
- Today's Small-to-Medium sized Enterprises SME are undergoing the same IT evolution as their large enterprise counterparts, only on a smaller scale. For SMEs, WAN reliability, flexible scalability, performance and ease of management are as essential to their WAN infrastructure as they are to a large enterprise. SMEs are able to...
- White papers 2009-02-10
- Gmail grows up with offline e-mail access
- Gmail grows up with offline e-mail access Big brother email...NO thanks I stay away from google and friends at the gov...eMail server already = cloud..and Google isn't needed.By definition, an email server is accessible on the web. So anyone who already runs a mail server -- Exchange or something...
- Discussion threads 2009-01-28
- Has Internet Explorer ever been safe?
- Has Internet Explorer ever been safe?The recommendation to use an alternative browser is based on......the existence of an exploit for which a patch is not available as of the time I write this. It is not being given because IE is insecure. I would hope this same advice were given...
- Discussion threads 2008-12-17
- SAP Business ByDesign Update
- Staying the Restrained Course Fellow ZDNet blogger, Dennis Howlett, and I were treated to a briefing by Jeff Stiles of SAP yesterday. The subject was SAP’s Business ByDesign product line. Business ByDesign is SAP’s software as a service SaaS or on-demand offering for the SMB marketplace. ...
- Blog posts 2008-12-16
- No accounting software for Linux?
- No accounting software for Linux?Compiere in no way can compete...with the likes of even Quickbooks. There are no third party vendors writing specific addons for compiere. CPA's don't support it so don't take a copy of your Compiere data files to your CPA at tax time. And uptodate payroll support...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-25
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