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Every once and awhile I tune in to JanRain’s broadcast - they are the team behind the Open Source project OpenID. (Which is timely to share since I think Wordpress is now OpenID compatible.) I’ve written on OpenID in the past - but to recap it allows you to use your login credentials from your [...]
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As a Mac enthusiast who also uses PC’s, I thought this Business 2.0 article was pretty funny. DOT bans Vista! Also Internet Explorer 7. Well, I do have some insight on the IE 7 trouble. IE 6 so blatantly violated browser standards that it required some serious coding to support. Plus it was so dominate [...]
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I received a heads-up in late January from Scot Case over at the Green Electronics Council that President Bush had signed an Executive Order requiring all federal agencies to buy EPEAT registered “green” computers.
Given that estimates are US federal agencies buy 7% of the world’s computers, this is a big deal. And I think it’s [...]
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As Coupa grows we’re getting serious about prospect followup, etc. One aspect of this is evaluating the quality of leads. In CRM terms, suffice it to say “quality” can mean whatever you want - in this case let’s say it measures interest-level (vs. budget-approved, is-the-right-sized-firm, etc).
For small firms like Coupa, the SalesGenius service seems pretty [...]
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I’ve posted quite a few times on SaaS before. Some posts have been positive, while others have been more challenging.
But there’s one truth I think we can all agree on - that the pricing model of SaaS is fundamentally different and very challenging for traditional vendors to match.
Software license pricing is a very interesting area [...]
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I was at peace reflecting on Oracle’s chop-block of Red Hat… But then Microsoft and Novell had to go and spoil the mood by getting into bed together.
A lot of the commentary has compared the Novell deal as similar to Microsoft’s support of a failing and flailing Apple. But this sure seems different to me.
There’s [...]
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Those that follow Larry Ellison’s sailing adventures know about the alinghi, a great team & ship that often gets the best of Larry despite the unlimited amount of money he throws at pursuing being #1.
Perhaps it’s time to add SAP to that same list. Despite Oracle’s 20B spending spree to acquire Peoplesoft, Siebel, and many [...]
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New On-Demand Programming Language called ABAP, oops I mean PL/SQL, oops I mean APEX.
Take a look for yourselves. What is great is that potentially this forces partners into a proprietary salesforce.com scheme for building applications. Write Once, Run Only On Salesforce.com. But if they can generate the marketing buzz & get IT departments and start-ups [...]
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I’ve posted in the past about Oracle’s Global Single Instance - both the vision and the reality. And although Oracle is now about as far off message from pushing a Global Single Instance as they ever could be, there are some compelling points that come with the promise of system centralization.
[Before you get too excited, [...]
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I enjoyed a review in VARBusiness on how the US Federal Government is getting behind the open source movement. It’s all about cost - and not just initial acquisition cost but the cost of integration, customization, and ongoing enhancement and maintenance. It’s good to see the US beginning to understand the movement - although in [...]
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