Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 30th, 2008 No Comments »
Today, in his final visit to England as chairman of Microsoft, Gates addressed an audience of decision-makers on the subject of hosted software, and CRM in particular. Immediately after Gates’ speech, the company “officially” launched Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, which was actually announced on January 2.
During his presentation, Gates argued that “hosted software will be […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 30th, 2008 1 Comment »
So, going over the CRM stories of the day, and Destination CRM (the news site of CRM Magazine that Colin wrote for and I managed years ago) had an interesting article on Sears outsourcing its CRM operations.
Huh?
This is stupid on so, so many levels. And I know Sears is not in the best of financial […]
Posted in Open Source, Uncategorized on Jan 23rd, 2008 2 Comments »
A new study by an open source vendor caught my attention today for as much what it exposed about open source software as it proved. Palamida, which sells both products to conduct audits of open source software and offers audit services, released the results of a study they conducted on open source vulnerabilities. In the […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 21st, 2008 No Comments »
One Washington-based software company is doing a great job of making the Web, and social networking solutions, more open. Ohloh, a community site for open source developers, is making its tools open source. The Ohloh site collates information from public open-source version control systems, creates a database of the productivity open source projects, and the […]
Posted in Mobile, Open Source, Uncategorized on Jan 11th, 2008 1 Comment »
Virgin Mobile made a notable open-source splash yesterday when they announced they implemented MySQL to run their text-messaging SMS database. The announcement carries significant weight, as it shows that support for MySQL, the LAMP stack, and other open source infrastructures, is continuing to grow within the enterprise segment.
The volume of database queries that Virgin Mobile […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 9th, 2008 No Comments »
Since the Floridian electoral fiasco of 2000, the voting machines that our democratic nation rely on have been called into question time after time, and with the presidential race beginning to heat up following the Iowa caucuses, I took interest in this New York Times article. Specifically, I found the following excerpt from the article […]
Posted in Open Source, Siebel/PeopleSoft/JD Edwards/Oracle, Uncategorized on Jan 9th, 2008 No Comments »
New Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst wasted no time in setting his sights against rivals Oracle and Microsoft. Just four days into his new job, Whitehurst was quoted in a number of recent articles in which he cited the competition:
“Here, we are the attacker. If you listen to all the squealing that Microsoft and Oracle […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 3rd, 2008 1 Comment »
I have spent a lot of time at events and such talking with Jeff Kaplan…I think he’s a smart guy and one of the more intelligent SaaS pundits (trust me, there are many that are simply riding the hype). So, just in time for David Letterman’s return with new shows - he put up a […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
Forrester Research released its latest assessment of top email marketing vendors. The survey found some interesting stats concerning email marketing. Of note, 62 percent of respondents said marketing effectiveness would increase over the coming years.
Personally, I always find these stats interesting, because as a consumer I spend a good portion of my time deleting […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 27th, 2007 No Comments »
It’s that time of the year for industry pundits to issue predictions for 2008, and Booz Allen Hamilton is no exception. In a new report, the consultancy issued the following five predictions for the enterprise software sector.
- A slower economy and a weak dollar will intensify cost pressures and focus on non-U.S. markets.
- The adoption […]
