Posted in Application Design, CRM, Microsoft, Mobile, SugarCRM, Uncategorized on Jul 8th, 2008 No Comments »
I have had my head in the Sugar Wireless 2.0 upgrades for the past week or so, doing some demos and other work around the enhanced capabilities. So, when I saw this primer for Mobile CRM at My Customer.com I was glad to see that people are getting it more and more when it comes […]
Posted in Microsoft, Open Source, SaaS, SugarCRM on Jul 2nd, 2008 1 Comment »
While Salesforce.com and other companies (SugarCRM included) were busy growing at triple digit growth rates via a subscription model, a lot of established vendors kept their distance.
And even when companies got into a subscription model, it was closely tied to their SaaS offerings. Some people, sad to say, still feel SaaS and subscription revenue models […]
Posted in Microsoft, Open Source on Jun 11th, 2008 No Comments »
Yesterday, the EU called for more governments to favor open source over proprietary technology. European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes, the EU’s top antitrust official, had this to say:
“No citizen or company should be forced or encouraged to choose a closed technology over an open one, through a government having made that choice first.” To Kroes, […]
Posted in Microsoft, Open Source on Jun 5th, 2008 No Comments »
In yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, columnist Lee Gomes raised some interesting points about Microsoft, the most applicable for this blog being Redmond opening up Microsoft Windows. Of his comments, I particularly liked the following:
Open source software such as Linux is traditionally seen as the opposite of proprietary software from the likes of Microsoft and Apple. […]
Posted in CRM, Microsoft on May 9th, 2008 No Comments »
So it seems Microsoft is considering a purchase of Facebook. Coming off its recently-abandoned Yahoo purchase, I’m skeptical if such an acquisition would give Microsoft the sufficient boost to its online efforts to make the deal worthwhile.
But one reason why I find the merger intriguing is because the purchase would be more than just a […]
Posted in Microsoft on May 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
Well, it seems Microsoft is not going to walk away from Yahoo anytime soon, according to numerous articles. To sweeten the deal, Microsoft is evidentially raised its bid to $33 a share, a stout increase from the $29.84 the company was bidding a month ago. Yahoo stockholders are looking for upwards of $37 a share.
While […]
Posted in CRM, Microsoft, Open Source, SaaS, SugarCRM, salesforce.com on Apr 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
Joshua Greenbaum wrote an interesting blog yesterday underscoring the brewing battle between Salesforce.com and Microsoft, which recently announced general availability of its on-demand CRM application to its North American subscribers.
Greenbaum highlighted a number of interesting paying points for Dynamics CRM Online, including being able to match or beat Salesforce.com in features/functionality, beat it in price, […]
Posted in CRM, Microsoft, SugarCRM on Apr 17th, 2008 No Comments »
I just got off a very long and intense call with a new reseller (I’ll have more to say soon, but for now, mum’s the word), and a lot of the discussion was about “how to identify the right SugarCRM prospect.”
Now, anyone can use SugarCRM - really. You want low cost CRM? […]
Posted in Google, Microsoft on Mar 20th, 2008 1 Comment »
Google continues to extend its lead in the search market, as the results from comScore’s latest report show: Yahoo’s shares slipped from 22.2 percent to 21.6 while Microsoft’s fell to 9.6 percent from 9.8. Google’s rose to 59.2 percent.
It’s bad enough that Microsoft is looking to purchase Yahoo purely for market share (a move I […]
Posted in Application Design, Microsoft, Open Source, SaaS, salesforce.com on Mar 19th, 2008 No Comments »
There’s been a lot of recent talk within the blogosphere taking note of the emerging Web-based, platform battle emerging between Salesforce.com and Microsoft. Dan Farber talked about in his blog yesterday.
While I’ll leave the potential landmine that is Benioff and Ray Ozzie slugging it out to other bloggers, I thought Dave Rosenberg brought up a […]
