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Dennis Byron

August 2009

August 31, 2009

Citrix Adding Cloud Virtualization

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 >

August 29, 2009

Enterprise Software First Principles: What Is Going to Happen to Software Development in the Next Decade?

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 >

August 27, 2009

FSF Takes New Aim at Enterprise Software

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 >

August 26, 2009

When Is an Enterprise Software Advantage a Disadvantage?

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 >

August 19, 2009

Four Enterprise Software Facts to Keep in Mind

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 >

August 12, 2009

Managing Your Enterprise-Software-Vendor Stockholm Syndrome

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 >

August 11, 2009

EMC/VMWare/Springsource Wants to Be Your Strategic Enterprise Software Partner

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 >

August 5, 2009

Microsoft 10-K Says Open Source Is Major Threat… Again

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 >

August 4, 2009

It's Summer in the City? 'Go Google!'

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 >

August 3, 2009

For Enterprise Software, Microsoft Wants You

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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