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- Forrester fuels the SAP maintenance price hike debate
- Forrester fuels the SAP maintenance price hike debateSAP MaintenanceSAP is a large company that feels they are bulletproof. They make their money on large accounts, and increasing maintenance is just a money grab in lue of increasing market share in SMB where thay have no clue how to penetrate.RE: Forrester...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Startups listen up: you've got a pricing problem
- Just about every new product coming to market is being offered as a service rather than packaged software. But pricing remains something of a mystery. A while back, I started a spreadsheet that plots price points for different saas accounting offerings. At the time I concluded that no-one has figured...
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Enterprise 2.0 and business collaboration
- Update: I hit "publish" before the article was completely finished, so I've added some images and updated some links. I can't pull the post without it leaving a trail behind it, so I may as well just own up now and say, "whoops, sorry". GroupSwim Collaboration, in...
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Apple: Perhaps it needs the enterprise after all
- Apple: Perhaps it needs the enterprise after allThe 35% of Fortune 500 companies......testing the iPhone means "35% of IT departments doing their damn jobs by testing a competing product before coming to the realisation that it isn't as good as their current solution".As for Apple getting a foothold in mainstream...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Zoho Marketplace: awesome
- Awesome is not a word I use often but when I saw Zoho Marketplace, the sound of my jaw hitting the desk was audible in the next street. What better way to get its collection of services working as the hub for other services that might build from Zoho products?...
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Zoho launches app marketplace; Aims to rally developers
- Zoho launches app marketplace; Aims to rally developersZohoI like the potential of Zoho but haven’t use their services regularly due to a few shortcoming but they are being fixed as we speak. I have sent feedback to them twice and both times I received intelligent replies back the next day....
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Ballmer needn't fear the Mac...just yet
- Boutique analyst firm Freeform Dynamics took a run at standardizing on Macs but the switch was not worthwhile. They're now back in the Windows fold. Their report starts by posing a series of questions about business benefit. They found that when pressed, business users were hard put to come up...
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- BT bundles up SaaS for SMBs
- In its longstanding quest to find the right formula to bring SaaS to the SMB masses, UK telecoms giant BT is now creating packages of services that put SaaS into a practical context for its SMB customers. by Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- A conversation with Thomas Otter, Gartner analyst and blogger
- While away, I briefly saw some comment about Gartner's latest foray into the blogging world. Past efforts have been abysmal but this latest attempt looks much more promising. Carter Lusher at SageCircle interviewed Andrew Spender, Gartner's VP of Corporate Communications, via email. The answers were somewhat stilted in my opinion....
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- Opportunities in the impending tech fallout
- Richard Koman writes an interesting piece on what he sees as the impact of the current financial crisis. The extract from Jay Bhatti, cofounder of people search engine Spock caught my attention: The big players like Oracle, Sun, Microsoft and SAP … will feel an immediate impact. Financial Service...
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- What's next for Microsoft's Visual Studio
- What's next for Microsoft's Visual StudioI hope not...I spend probably 50% of my time in Visual Studio and 30% of my time in SQL Server Management Studio. I've said for years that Microsoft makes the best development tools on the market by a long shot. If they switch...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-17
- Seesmic layoffs and a new reality?
- Valleywag's somewhat unkind depiction of the layoffs at Seesmic: Seesmic's newest feature: layoffs is but the latest in an emerging trend of Silicon Valley startups reigning in their spend. Over in Denmark, a remarkable account of failure has emerged. Earlier this week, I debunked some of the talk around ROI,...
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Notes from VMworld
- Here are some random notes from VMworld. Paula is also here at the event and she has posted her own view of Paul Maritz's session. Conversation with Ed Walsh, CEO of Virtual Iron Ed Walsh, CEO of Virtual Iron, and I met for coffee prior to the beginning of...
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Dell's second quarter: Another milepost in the turnaround tale
- Dell reports its fiscal second quarter results on Thursday after market close and analysts are turning optimistic about the company's turnaround prospect amid better consumer notebook designs, emerging market revenue and solid server sales growth. Dell is expected to report fiscal second quarter earnings of 36 cents...
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Which merchants benefit most from open source?
- Which merchants benefit most from open source?Which businesses exist because of open source?Seriously, Open Source has lowered the bar to becoming a business to the cost of hardware and time. Yes, people always say their time is worth $1000/hour, but that's assuming people are paying you at ALL times.For...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
- SAP All-in-One implementations in less than 3 months?
- SAP All-in-One implementations in less than 3 months?Absolutely realistic with the right conditonsDennis, In the late 90's I had a few SAP R/3 fixed-price, 6-month R/3 implementations, and that was a far more extensive and complicated system. They were all largely template-based, and pre-implementation scoping determined the templates would...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-21
- Novell-Microsoft interop pact may look sweeter to IT shops these days
- Novell-Microsoft interop pact may look sweeter to IT shops these daysOn the outside looking inIt's more like MS is on the outside looking in.Hyper-V is a proprietary lock-in solution. Xen, Citrix XenSource, SUN xVM, VMware all let IT run bare-metal Windows on Linux.It's a whole new ballgame."I am merely...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- French PC market grew 9.6% in Q1 2008
- French PC market started the year at a healthy pace, with shipments recording 9.6% YOY growth in Q1 2008. Strong notebook sales drove overall market dynamics, especially in the consumer and SMB space, contributing to a 30.2% rise in total portable shipments, with further momentum created by the Eee PC...
- Blog posts 2008-08-08
- IBM, Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat gang up on Vista
- The Linux computing crowd smells blood and wants to make a run at Microsoft's Vista operating system. Coinciding with LinuxWorld, IBM, Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat issued a joint statement promising "Microsoft free" desktops across the globe. I doubt it...
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Where are the expense management startups and Dirty SaaS?
- My Irregular chums have been fiercely debating the need and merit of a sensible expense management solution that combines the best of online purchasing with accounting and the ability to re-bill (where appropriate.) It all started when there was a discussion around Concur and Rearden Commerce...
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
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