Maybe there is some more obvious reason (like a trade show I don’t follow) to announce enterprise software the week before the Labor Day holiday. But conventional PR wisdom says it’s the slowest rea... More >
On CNet August 4, Dave Rosenberg said that that the program development environment is all about to change. He wrote: It's not "which OS should I write to?" anymore. It's now "which Web-centric too... More >
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) really gets tiring with its anti-Microsoft bombast and adolescent protests, such as windows7sins.org . If you were in central Boston on Wednesday, and you d... More >
I am involved in a lot of first-half 2009 investment research into the leading enterprise software suppliers this month, following their late July/early August reports to the financial analysts conce... More >
In my Enterprise Software Stockholm Syndrome blog post of August 12, I noted how important it is to study enterprise software market dynamics yourself in order to protect your company’s or organiza... More >
A blog post yesterday by Wayne Eckerson at Enterprise Systems entitled The End of Enterprise Software builds its theory around the following observation: “… the business model for enterprise soft... More >
It’s not the glory days of Sun (JAVA) paying $1 billion for MySQL or Yahoo (YHOO) paying a zillion for Zimbra, but the spigots seemed to have opened again for enterprise software acquisitions. Maybe ... More >
A website called CMSWire gets this year's Half a Loaf award for scouring the Microsoft (MSFT) 10-K annual report released July 30, 2009 for interesting tidbits and then being the first to file a half... More >
The August 2009 Google promotional effort using highway billboards to sell its enterprise applications is a guerilla-marketing campaign aimed at downtown workers in Boston, Chicago, Manhattan and San... More >
Microsoft -- like most companies whose shares are publicly traded -- holds periodic meetings with "its investors." What this actually means is management speaking to investment analysts employed by c... More >

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