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- Coda
- (1) A distributed file system developed at Carnegie Mellon University in the late 1980s. Evolving from the Andrews File System, Coda is noted for its ability to withstand network...
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- CODA2Go and the economics of PaaS
- CODA2Go and the economics of PaaSre: USCODA has past experience of getting badly burned in the US and when I spoke to Roche about this, he said that the GTM with SFdC provides a significant degree of insulation against those risks.RE: CODA2Go and the economics of PaaSI think we need...
- Tags: PaaS, CODA2go, Coda
- Discussion threads 2008-05-13
- CODA2Go and the economics of PaaS
- I had the opportunity to talk money last week with Jeremy Roche, CEO of CODA, the venerable UK-based business software vendor that has become the poster child for Salesforce.com's platform ambitions after the release at DreamForce Europe of its new on-demand financials application, built and delivered entirely on Force.com. Why...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Roche Holding AG, PaaS, On-demand, CODA2Go, Force.com, Coda, Sales Force Management, Sales, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Google and Salesforce.com: does it make sense?
- Google and Salesforce.com: does it make sense?RE: Google and Salesforce.comIIt may only be my opinion, but I say no! Ifyou want to see something, that makes sense.Check it out! (www.jldd21.nocashever.com)Therehave already been over 76000 hits on an international response. Take the tour!Later,www.jldd21.nocashever.com
- Tags: Sales force management, Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-10
- Google and Salesforce.com: does it make sense?
- I've spent some time the last couple of days trying to ferret out whether the rumored hook up between Salesforce.com and Google for its applications is hype or real. I'm no closer to knowing than anyone else. I did speak with Mike Arrington on this who claims to have a...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., CODA, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- More consolidation as Agresso closes in on CODA?
- In a regulatory statement made on its website, UK enterprise financials vendor CODA today announced it has been approached by Agresso in what looks like a friendly takeover: Coda plc ("CODA" or the "Company") announces that on 18 December 2007 it received an indicative approach from Unit 4 Agresso...
- Tags: Consolidation, On-demand, CODA, Unit 4 Agresso, Approach, COA, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-01-14
- Coda (zip)
- Coda is a one-window Web development. Coda takes all of the tools you need to build the future of the Web, including an integrated file browser, fully-featured text editor, CSS editor, preview, built-in terminal, and complete set of reference, and wraps it all in a single elegant interface. Version 1.1...
- Tags: Web, Panic, Coda, CSS, Channel Management, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Marketing
- Software downloads 2007-12-10
- Out of sync at 35,000 feet
- Out of sync at 35,000 feetSyncing is not a hardware functionI understand it should be made easier, but this is rather application logic and not hardware function. After all what hardware knows what is running on it?... and why should it?The same as car does not know what driver drives...
- Tags: Groupware, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, file system, Coda, database
- Discussion threads 2006-02-07
Additional Resources
- Ticking bombs in enterprise land
- I believe the enterprise software industry is heading for major problems. It started when I read Francine McKenna where she talks about what she sees as a doomsday scenario for at least one of the Big Four audit businesses. Francine's focus is on questioning the effectiveness of current methods for...
- Tags: Software, Audit, Francine, Tools & Techniques, Financial Accounting, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Time to blow up the software industry
- Vinnie Mirchandani's post, Call to Steve Jobs: Please reshape the enterprise software market was bound to get a reaction out of my Irregular chums. 70 reactions to be precise as at the time of writing this post. That's the number of posts to our Google Group on the topic with...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Financial, Software Company, SAP AG, Vinnie Mirchandani, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Management, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Scaling the cloud, deflating the price of software
- After a week of intensive usage last December getting his company's application to run against Amazon's SimpleDB cloud database, DreamFactory founder and CTO Bill Appleton wondered how big a bill he'd run up. To his amazement, what had seemed like a week's heavy usage had cost just a few cents....
- Tags: Software, Database, On-demand, Amazon.com Inc., Pricing Strategy, DreamFactory, Bill Appleton, Pricing, Cloud Computing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- Aqilla mashes Google with accounting
- Following a low profile beta test period, London UK based Aqilla has come out of beta with an on-demand accounting application but with several twists. First up, its dashboard has a similar look and feel to iGoogle. This is no coincidence as the application includes some...
- Tags: Google Inc., Accounting, On-demand, Dashboard, Aqilla, Taxes, Financial Planning, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- XP on XO: Negroponte has lost his bearings
- XP on XO: Negroponte has lost his bearingsWe need to see the XP offering.MS is involved now, and let's hope that the XP version is locked down (ROM only?), comes with a suite of software for the kids, and is usable. I'd like to see this suceed with it's...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Negroponte, One Laptop Per Child project, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2008-05-16
- European on-demand accounting vendors breaking the dam?
- Since I am based in Europe and come from a finance background, I have a special interest in what happens in this part of the world. Over the last couple of years, I've been consistently told by 'experts' that saas/on-demand business applications and especially those that are finance related will...
- Tags: On-demand, Vendor, QuickBooks Online, Smb/Sme, Financial Accounting, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Business ByDesign: the Irregular verdict
- I've hung back on posting my thoughts on Business ByDesign for several reasons. When I wrote my pre-Sapphire08 conference story, it was clear this would dominate the Irregulars' questions. I needed to get through meeting with all the key executives and view the latest iteration of the product to gain...
- Tags: SAP AG, Brian Sommer, Design Effort, EDI, Roi/Tco, Operational Planning, Sales Channel, Financial Accounting, Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Business Operations, Sales, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- Marc Benioff heralds Web 3.0 at DreamForce Europe
- Salesforce.com has come to London today for its first DreamForce Europe event. There have been European customer and partner events in previous years, but this is the first event at true DreamForce scale — 2,500 attendees at the Barbican conference center in the heart of the City, London's financial district....
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Web, Marc Benioff, Web 3.0, PaaS, Force.com, Sales Force Management, Channel Management, Sales, Marketing, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- SAP's SaaS pull-out will help rivals in Europe
- The news that SAP has pushed back the roll-out of Business ByDesign by twelve to eighteen months should be music to the ears of its SaaS competitors, especially on SAP's home turf in Europe. By announcing its own SaaS product for the midmarket late last year, SAP put its stamp...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, On-demand, NetSuite Inc., SAP AG, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- EXCLUSIVE: CODA2go on force.com
- Today in an exclusive preview, I saw CODA2go's first iteration. CODA2go is accounting software developer CODA's first foray at an on-demand accounting application service built on the force.com platform. CODA claims it is the largest development of its type on force.com. According to...
- Tags: Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Zoho's pivot and macro capabilities: tipping point?
- Today's addition of VB Macro and pivot table support to Zoho Sheets is possibly the most important step forward for the Zoho suite of business applications. These two capabilities are top of list for keeping Microsoft Office customers loyal. Pivot tables are extensively...
- Tags: Business Application, Microsoft Visual Basic, Zoho, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Development Tools, Programming Languages, Microsoft Office, Financial Accounting, Office Suites, Software, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- EclipseCon debuts OSGi runtime offerings, common platform frees up developers from middleware drudgery
- Tony Baer has a great rundown of the EclipseCon OSGI-based runtime Equinox news today. Extending the Eclipse community's unity to runtimes makes a ton of sense, given that developers can focus on the applications and business logic and become far less concerned with complex deployment issues. Write once, run anywhere?...
- Tags: Developer, Runtime, SOA, Eclipse, OSGi, Tony Baer, Equinox, Eclipse-Equinox Ecology Symmetry, Java Community, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Java Development Tools, Open Source, Middleware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- So what's an application, anyway?
- So what's an application, anyway?Unix Museum - Exhibit AConfiguration files that are only validated at run time - even for being syntactically correct, never mind type or any other kind of consistency checking.This applies both to Unix itself and to many Unix system applications or utilities (or whatever you want...
- Tags: essay, Bach, Unix Museum, Unix, compilation
- Discussion threads 2007-11-07
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