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Dennis Byron

August 2008

August 29, 2008

Where Have You Gone Samuel Gompers? Happy Labor Day

Like most people, I hate getting old. But the fact that some robotic HR director will never feed me to the Zapoint "Web 2.0 talent management" platform almost makes it worthwhile. According to this ... More >

August 26, 2008

Market, Not Analysts, Drives Fairness in Open Source Research

A recent silicon.com posting says "Analysts Fail Open Source."   That reminds me that next up in the queue for me here at IT Business Edge is a review, promised in July 2008 , of how IT ma... More >

August 22, 2008

How Come We Buy 21st Century Enterprise Software the Same Way We Did in the 20th Century?

I am doing some research on a big contract the British government-associated educational consultancy Becta will be awarding in the fall, some details of which were announced July 7 . The press rele... More >

August 20, 2008

In Enterprise Software, It's Still 'Pay Me Now or Pay Me Later'

Back in June there was a flurry of blogopatter about high maintenance fees from enterprise software suppliers. The discussions were tied into SAP announcing that it was folding the TomorrowNow tent a... More >

August 19, 2008

Microhoo: the Circus Is Back in the Enterprise Software Ring Thanks to Google

In the whole six months of Microsoft vs. Yahoo vs. Google, I posted only one opinion. On the day the Microsoft bid was announced , I said I would like to see Ray Ozzie of IBM/Microsoft/Notes and Sco... More >

August 15, 2008

In Enterprise Software, GRC Should be Spelled G and R and C

A summary of my recently completed research into the governance, risk and compliance (GRC) offerings of leading software suppliers and what users think about the subject is available on IT Business E... More >

August 12, 2008

SAP: Just When the News Can't Get Any Worse

"The National Federation of the Blind  of Arkansas and two blind state employees have agreed to a settlement among  themselves, the state of Arkansas, and software provider SAP Public Services,  In... More >

August 11, 2008

Microsoft's 2008 10-K and the EU: Listening to the Dog That Didn't Bark

There has been all kinds of misdirection and misinformation floating around the blogosphere concerning four- to eight-year old sentences in the Risk Factors section of Microsoft's 2008 10-K. &nbs... More >

August 4, 2008

New Legal Finding Against SAP: 'Guilty by Reason of Customization'

In the dog days of August here on Cape Cod, it's harder to find something to write about regarding enterprise software on a daily basis than it is to actually write it. It's summertime and the living... More >