The disruption is here. To sloppily paraphrase Bob Dylan, software companies have to get busy being born or get busy dying. It’s not even about living anymore: if software vendors can’t be reborn into the new market, then they simply won’t survive.
Read More...From CIO Insight: A survey of 300 senior IT professionals corroborated something we’ve been seeing for the past few years: most ERP systems are dramatically underutilized in terms of functionality. The survey, conducted by Accenture and targeted at senior IT pros across North America and the UK, yielded some interesting facts: Most organizations use only
Read More...You can’t step inside an RSS reader or Twitter today without reading about the Oracle/Sun acquisition, so I’ll assume for a moment that most everyone knows that Oracle plans to buy Sun for $7.4B or $9.50 per share in cash. I’ll also assume that everyone has heard Ellison’s definite (and somewhat foreboding, especially if you’re
Read More...Jeff Kaplan: Despite the economy, election and lingering questions about whether Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is enterprise-ready, this week’s Salesforce.com Dreamforce conference drew nearly ten thousand energnetic attendees and exhibitors to celebrate the power of the ‘cloud’. The event not only dispelled any questions about whether the SaaS movement can withstand today’s economy, it also helped to
Read More...Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful…What is likely is that the market will move higher, perhaps substantially so, well before either sentiment or the economy turns up. So if you wait for the robins, spring will be over. —Warren E. Buffett (discussing when to buy) I was at
Read More...Say what you want about him, but Larry’s never been one to mince words: "The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we’ve redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do. I can’t think of anything that isn’t cloud computing with all of these announcements. The computer industry is the only industry that
Read More...Businessweek recently published a surprisingly negative article about SaaS, saying that its hype can be largely undeserved for a number of reasons. Now, I like BS-calling as much as the next guy (maybe a bit more, actually), but I found Gene Marks’s reasoning to be too generalized and all-encompassing. Marks says: Myth 1: SaaS is
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