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- Traditional software licensing: Why you pay more and a look at your options
- It's hard to believe that some of the most profitable software companies in the world--Oracle, Microsoft and SAP--are sitting on a licensing model that is untenable in the long run and will increasingly irk customers. But there may be a revolution in the cards that could tip the balance of...
- Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Open Source, Software Company, Margin, Tools & Techniques, Software As A Service (SaaS), Management, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-11
- Australian senator demands open source against US "lock-in"
- Australian senator, Karen Lundy, believes US software "lock-in" reduces both competition and technology innovation, thereby hurting the Australian technology market. Speaking at an Australia 2020 Local Summit, Senator Lundy's remarks made clear her commitment to open source at the expense of "proprietary" systems. Her comments also...
- Tags: Software, Senator, Open Source, Software Company, Tools & Techniques, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- Agenda (zip)
- Phone book, calendar, daily memo writing, dates and obligations reminder, budget balance, create media albums, send emails, friends and family information and birthdates reminder, organize favorite sites, hotel and travel reservation, live news.
- Tags: Software Company, E-mail, Tools & Techniques, Telecom & Utilities, Online Communications, Management
- Software downloads 2008-01-15
- Point Of Sale Shop (zip)
- Point of sale store in USA, organize all types of merchandise, manager password, users' logins, retail process, refund process, tax vary, customers database, generate invoices, reporting on all actions, and user installs. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Point-of-sale, Software Company
- Software downloads 2007-12-13
- More publishers seeing green, especially Olive green
- The folks who produce text that traditionally became ink printed onto paper are having tough times. We've all seen the reports of newspaper lay-offs. One financial problem they face: big daily papers have lost their stranglehold on lucrative classified ads to services like craigslist. ...
- Tags: Nashville, Advertisement, Software Company, Printing, Olive Software, Spielvogel, Document Management, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-11-18
- Best of breed: No need for an obit
- As Cognos--and any other mid-sized software firm--gets consolidated by the elephants in the room (Oracle, Microsoft, IBM and SAP) the concept of best of breed is on life support. But the patient won't be in critical condition for long. Contrary to all the indicators, the best of...
- Tags: Cognos Inc., Oracle Corp., Software Company, SAP AG, Tools & Techniques, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Mergers & Acquisitions, Enterprise Software, Databases, Management, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-11-13
- Sun looking to buy software companies
- Sun looking to buy software companiesNetApp?NetApp alleges Sun violates its patents. A purchase would make that issue go away.RE: Sun looking to buy software companiesHopefully they'll purchase some sort that can really improve their middleware/desktop portfolio.Corel for example would be a good investment; it might cost $200million (ontop of the...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Sun Microsystems Inc., software company, software, Mainsoft, NetApp
- Discussion threads 2007-09-05
- Will XenSource-Citrix Deal Hurt Xen, Open Source?
- Citrix's $500 million buyout of XenSource is a brilliant strategic move that will enable the Ft. Lauderdale, Fl. software company --and its powerful close ally, Microsoft -- to steal market share from virtualization software kingpin VMware. The deal, announced this week presumably to coincide with VMware's star-studded IPO, essentially unifies...
- Tags: Software, Open Source, Software Company, Citrix Systems Inc., Xen, XenSource Inc., Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2007-08-16
- Photos: Rolling across America at '10 MPH'
- Filmmakers hit the road again, this time for screenings of their documentary chronicling a cross-country ride on a Segway.Josh Caldwell, along with close friend Hunter Weeks, filmed the feature-length documentary 10 MPH, which depicts a 2004 transcontinental Segway journey from Seattle to Boston. Caldwell had the honor of actually riding...
- Tags: photograph, Josh Caldwell, Segway, MPH, Hunter Weeks, documentary, Seattle, Boston, honor, Idaho, Kansas, Dallas, Chicago, movie, America, director, software company, software
- Image galleries 2007-08-07
- Store Plus Web Site (zip)
- Manage store, stock organizing, users login, vary tax, refund process, online Web site, payment system 2CO, accept credit cards, checks, shopping cart, orders management, settle shipment methods, best sales reports, register domain and Web hosting, online installation, uploading Web site and updating.
- Tags: Web, Payment, Software Company, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Sales Strategy, Channel Management, Operational Accounting, Internet, Sales, Marketing, Finance
- Software downloads 2007-04-17
- Microsoft to help other software vendors go the SaaS route
- Microsoft to help other software vendors go the SaaS routeMicrosoft to help other software vendors go the SaaS routeSure. It's April 1st.MS to help themselves to other software vendors ideasWhat documents need to signed??"Is Microsoft safe to partner with on the SaaS front?"The...uhm...question begs the "No" answer.SaaS and MSFTSounds a...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), software-as-a-service, software company, Microsoft Corp., software
- Discussion threads 2007-04-16
- Microsoft to help other software vendors go the SaaS route
- While Microsoft is attempting to distance itself from other software-as-a-service SaaS players, the Redmond software company is trying to help other software makers move to the SaaS distribution model. On April 16, Microsoft unveiled the Microsoft SaaS Incubation Center program -- an initiative designed to match up independent software...
- Tags: Web 2.0, SQL Server, Google, Exchange Server, Database, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-04-16
- Store (zip)
- Package includes store management, items classification, retail, point of sale, stock control, barcode reading, generate customers invoice, reports on sales, stock quantities, refund process and online installation on PC. Version 1.4 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
- Tags: Software Company, Stock, Investment, Finance
- Software downloads 2007-04-13
- Store multi-cashier (zip)
- Store management, POS,retail, barcode reading, refund process, reports, plan for increasing sales, user login, customers database, generate invoices, stock control, user installation ,refund process ,searching tool. Version 1.3 may include unspecified improvements, enhancements and bug fixes.
- Tags: Software Company, Sales Strategy, Productivity, Sales Force Management, Investment, Storage, Databases, Sales, Finance, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2007-03-27
- OpSource: On-Demand Services for Software-on-Demand
- Santa Clara, Calif.-based OpSource offers ISVs Independent Software Vendors a premium multi-tenant hosting environment based on the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system. Many of the software companies aiming for a share of the fast-growing, multi-billion-dollar Software-as-a-Service SaaS market are themselves beginning to realize the immense benefits of using hosted,...
- Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Software Company, On-demand, OpSource, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Emerging Technologies, Management
- Case studies 2007-03-14
- SaaS: IBM helps drive $10 billion Software as a Service opportunity
- Will 30% of new business software be delivered via a SaaS model by 2010? IBM is doing everything it can to help make the industry prediction a reality, an IBM PartnerWorld reality in particular.Dave Mitchell, IBM, Program Director, Software as a Service, has a message for Independent Software Vendors ISVs...
- Tags: Enterprise, IBM, Software
- Blog posts 2007-03-13
- Photo: Sun, Intel team up
- The software company and the chipmaker give a boost Intel's Xeon processors and Sun's Solaris operating system.
- Tags: Intel Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Intel Xeon, Sun Solaris, chip company, software company, operating system, photograph, processor, software, team
- Image galleries 2007-01-22
- Educational software gets cool
- For the last six years or so, the educational software market has been left eating the dust of non-educational games such as Nintendo and Game Boy. Competing with the the adrenaline rush of a car race game is tough for educational software companies, but market studies show a number of...
- Tags: software
- Blog posts 2006-08-07
- Microsoft coughs up for health care software maker
- Microsoft coughs up for health care software makerAnd of course, you can count on Microsoft...ntSun flares database software,IBM launches a missile of server software, Apple iSauces lifestyle software, Cisco cooks up router software, Oracle forsees another software company purchase, Real really needs to change their software, AOL is DOA on...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, software, health care, health care software company, software company, Microsoft Corp., America Online Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-07-26
- Intel's long-awaited Montecito set for debut
- Intel's long-awaited Montecito set for debutYawn.Well, it looks like Don can finally plan to buy a high-end machine to run his custom version of Solitaire ...Which will be about the only software that runs on it -- all of the major software vendors have dropped the Itanic from their roadmaps.And...
- Tags: Processors, Semiconductors, 64-bit, Network technology, 64-bit CPU, IBM Corp., Now Let, Intel Corp., Intel Itanium, chip, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., multi-core, software company, Montecito, performance
- Discussion threads 2006-07-07
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