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- Salesforce.com As Economic Barometer
- Marc Benioff's interview with the Wall Street Journal today has an interesting little tidbit about the value of his on-demand model, and what an astute investor could do with data about the usage of a service like Salesforce.com. In the interview, Marc ponders the question of whether we're in...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force, Data, SFDC, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-01-24
- SAP-Business Objects combo ready to roll
- This morning, after digesting Oracle's acquisition of BEA and Sun's consumption of MySQL, I headed down SAP's Palo Alto offices to hear how the enterprise software giant will digest its latest acquisition, Business Objects. SAP CEO Henning Kagermann said Business Objects gives his company number one leadership...
- Tags: Business Objects, SAP AG, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Mergers & Acquisitions, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Investment, Finance, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-01-16
- Open source adoption: More rigor, less emotion
- Open source adoption: More rigor, less emotionYes, less and less religion every day, just good business sense.Yes, Stevie would have you think this is just a bunch or religious zelots, but, companies are just quietly adopting and saving lots of money, and gaining control.Well, Stevie's patent religion is getting kind...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Stevie, software, developer, Linux, open source
- Discussion threads 2007-10-09
- AMD: Sales aren't up to snuff
- AMD: Sales aren't up to snuffProfits in the entire industry are downI'm sure you have all read that CompUSA is closing half of their stores, Circuit City will close almost 100 stores this year, Dell and HP have seen their unit sales slide. Even popular computer periodicals like PC Magazine...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Desktops, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., industry, Job Growth, sales
- Discussion threads 2007-03-05
- Ballmer a patent troll?
- Ballmer a patent troll?Not a threat to USERS, Other distros howeverare a different matter.Do yourself a favor, stop trying to whip up sympathy for the Linux distros by making wild a** claims of MS suing end users. It just make you appear stupid...Big dealIf Linus is staying with GPLv2,...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, MSFT, SuSE, Microsoft Corp., distro, SCO Group Inc., patent, Balmer, Novell Inc., Steve Ballmer
- Discussion threads 2006-11-20
- News of puppets?
- Im a big fan of Second Life. But I wonder about a Reuters bureau for SL, which was launched, along with an SL news page where stories have the gushing quality of a press release, like this:Philip Rosedale and his team at Linden Lab have almost godlike powers in Second...
- Tags: Second Life, avatar
- Blog posts 2006-10-16
- MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, Digg = $17.7 billion 'voodoo exuberance'?
- Ronald Regan was called out for “voodoo economics” and Alan Greenspan called out “irrational exuberance.” Is today’s fixation on fixing unsubstantiated exuberant economic values to Web 2.0 free-to-users, bandwidth consuming, copyright infringement plagued, lowest common denominator, online Generation Y social network darlings “voodoo exuberance”?The “exuberant voodoo” record: MySpace: $15 billion...
- Tags: Facebook, valuation
- Blog posts 2006-10-04
- U.S. 'lobbied' the EC over Microsoft fine
- U.S. 'lobbied' the EC over Microsoft fineWow, the Bush administration is going from prosecuting criminals to helpingthem avoid abiding by the laws in other countries.Not a very good precident indeed.U.S. 'lobbied' the EC over Microsoft fineThis story is a load of bunk. There is no way the U.S. would...
- Tags: Government, Microsoft Corp., U.S. Government
- Discussion threads 2006-09-26
- Judge OKs new Microsoft antitrust deadline
- Judge OKs new Microsoft antitrust deadlineM$ got away in USby abusing the justice system.In any other country M$ executives would have been arrested and the company split or disolved.Money runs the country.Microsoft bought the right people. It's cheaper for them to break the law in the U.S. and pay...
- Tags: Corporate law, Emperor, Vista Experience, antitrust, Microsoft Corp., antitrust law
- Discussion threads 2006-09-07
- Cerf and Khan to get Presidential Medal of Honor
- What do Vint Cerf and Bob Khan have in common with Carol Burnett, Muhammed Ali and Alan Greenspan? Yup, they're all winners of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. You may have forgotten what Carol Burnett did to deserve the honor (probably it was for years of entertaining America, but...
- Tags: Presidential Medal, Vint Cerf, Carol Burnett
- Blog posts 2005-11-06
- Y2K's long tail
- When the clocks hit midnight on January 1, 2000 and nothing happened, some cynics wondered if all the prep work and excitement around Y2K was a waste of time and money. However, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has just pointed out that the Y2K preparations were very instrumental in helping...
- Tags: Y2K
- Blog posts 2005-10-28
- Business Week's VoIP doom and gloom: they may not be all wrong, you know
- Business Week's Olga Kharif believes that the VoIP market has entered a phase what Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan terms "irrational exuberance.""I believe that we'll see the VoIP world coming down to earth sooner rather than later, too," she writes.Kharif seems to be basing her prediction on the belief that...
- Tags: VoIP
- Blog posts 2005-09-11
- Intel plows health care field
- Intel has been unique among chip companies in that it's a market maker. The company didn't passively sit back and wait for wireless to take off, for example. It created a massive marketing campaign Centrino in an attempt to make Intel synonymous with Wi-Fi (David Berlind can tell you...
- Tags: Burns, health care, Intel Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-08-24
- Silicon Valley lessons--decline of the West?
- Silicon Valley lessons--decline of the West?Incorrect.The dropping us dollar is not a detriment to acquiring a good research staff.The reason we are not producing scientists and engineers in the US is that the degree costs tens of thousands of dollars and you graduate to find you are competing with people...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job
- Discussion threads 2005-04-07
- PC Forum: Who are the trustees?
- Howard Gardner, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, kicked off PC Forum with an apt topic—trust. Who can you trust? Gardner came up with the notion of trustees, people who are well known, widely respected, unbiased and impartial. They would be willing to resign on principle. He...
- Tags: trustee, Howard Gardner
- Blog posts 2005-03-20
- CEOs unnecessarily risk averse, say Wharton experts
- The lack of confidence among executives is the underlying cause for the slew of profit warnings technology companies announced at the end of the second quarter this year,say experts at the Wharton School of Business. According to Wharton finance Professor Jeremy Siegel, capital spending from corporations has largely been absent...
- Tags: Wharton
- Blog posts 2004-09-23
- For Gates, a knight to be remembered
- For Gates, a knight to be rememberedThis is so funny, at the same time, they are dumping Microsoft.They will be one of the first to start dumping Microsoft products, but giving him a going away party. Well, why not???what's up with this?It may have happened before, but giving a honor...
- Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, knight, Darl McBride
- Discussion threads 2004-01-26
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