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 […]
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Dave Rosenberg eluded to an interview in his blog yesterday that he conducted with Matt Asay and Daniel Lyons during this week’s episode of Open Season. For those of you not familiar with Lyons, he is a senior editor with Forbes magazine, and otherwise known by his alter ego, Fake Steve Jobs, thanks to his […]
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Microsoft’s much anticipated software-as-a-service (SaaS) announcement this week proved to be anticlimactic, to say the least. The software giant essentially announced an extension of its hosted SharePoint and Exchange offerings.
Last September, Microsoft started offering the hosted versions of its Exchange Server and SharePoint Server to companies with 5,000 users or more. Now it’s making the […]
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I’ve had some thoughts on recent news within the enterprise software segment that I’ve been waiting to blog about, and today seemed as good a day as ever. Feel free to provide your feedback.
- I came across this press release put out by SAP. It’s essentially useless, as it’s simply more smack in the never […]
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I had a phone call today with a SugarCRM customer who has deployed Sugar On-Demand in a big way. About halfway through the discussion, the chitchat sidetracked into a discussion about the advantages of linking open source with software-as-a-service (SaaS). The IT manager I was speaking with made a great point about the advantages of […]
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Well, the big boys in Redmond are finally starting to get it. Microsoft said today that it’s going to start embracing open standards and interoperability in a major way, announcing a set of new principles and a commitment to support open standards. In a press conference this morning, CEO Steve Ballmer and chief software architect […]
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I had the pleasure of meeting Daniel Lyons today, as he kicked off SugarCon 2008 with an erratic, humor-driven keynote. To say Daniel Lyons is funny is an understatement. His dry, witty, and intelligent brand of humor never ceases to amaze me, and he’s even funnier in person than via the Web.
During his keynote this […]
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I am in final prep mode for SugarCon, and I really think this conference is gonna rock. Literally - stay tuned for Colin’s play-by-play (I am sure he’s still in football mode following his Giant’s victory over Belicheat and Tom Shady).
But even with all the buzz around SugarCon over here at Sugar HQ, justice returning […]
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I am deep in the throes of final preparation for what I hope will be an awesome event next week - SugarCon.
But I wanted to take a moment and think about Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo! No, I don’t think it will “beat Google” or really make any changes in the way Yahoo! operates. But, Yahoo!’s […]
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Earlier this month I posited in a blog post that Cisco and WebEx will be our major competitors, not Salesforce.com when all is said and done.
I was thinking far down the road…but Cisco is continuing to impress me with its creation of great network pipes that will make really cool application visions possible, beyond what […]
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