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- Reputation, trust and Salesforce outages
- Yes, of course Salesforce's outages are sullying the reputation of the SaaS model, as David Berlind surmises. But it's not (or shouldn't be) the outages themselves that are doing the sullying. The true culprit is Salesforce.com's outage obfuscation, which Dan Farber reported last night — and on which...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., outage
- Blog posts 2006-02-01
- Salesforce.com's outage obfuscation
- Yesterday I posted about a salesforce.com outage that company founder and CEO Marc Benioff called "minor," lasting only about 30 minutes. Alorie Gilbert has a story today that quotes some customers contradicting Benioff's 'minor' characterization. I heard from a large salesforce.com customer who said that the outage was not minor....
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., outage
- Blog posts 2006-01-31
- Lately it occurs to me: Grateful Dead tapes will drive broadband subs
- Ten years after his passing, the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia is doing his part to sell broadband Internet access.Im serious. And no, I haven't adapted any of the habits historically associated with some GD fans. But put it this way. As my colleague Alorie Gilbert reported the other...
- Tags: Grateful Dead
- Blog posts 2005-12-02
- SBC to offer E911 access to VoIP providers? Oh yea? I want these 12 questions answered first
- Sorry, but I am still skeptical over the timing and scope of SBC's announcement yesterday that, the company has plans that in the words of my colleague Alorie Gilbert will help Internet phone companies "offer more reliable 911 services for their subscribers."While SBC says that the service will permit emergency...
- Tags: SBC, VoIP
- Blog posts 2005-05-12
- The great seduction of the information age
- Are your friends, family and colleagues telling you that you seem a bit restless, irritable and impulsive. Are you feeling overwhelmed and ineffective at work and at home? Are you numbed out? You might just be in a bad mood or you may be suffering from the "normal" version of ADD--ADT (Attention...
- Tags: ARe, Edward Hallowell
- Blog posts 2005-03-28
- PeopleSoft's last hurrah?
- When PeopleSoft's CEO Craig Conway speaks to thousands of customers tomorrow at the company's annual customer event, he will try to convince them that the barbarians are not at the gate. Following a federal judge's ruling in favor of Oracle's proposed $7.7 billion buyout of PeopleSoft, Conway is in a...
- Tags: PeopleSoft Inc.
- Blog posts 2004-09-20
- Oracle wins antitrust case, but...
- A federal judge handed Oracle a victory, ruling that the company's acquisition of software rival PeopleSoft would pose no threat to competition in the corporate software market. Will U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker's decision against the U.S. Department of Justice, which opposes the proposed merger, make future enforcement of antitrust law in high-tech...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Wins, antitrust
- Blog posts 2004-09-09
- Peoplesoft's ingestion of J.D. Edwards now giving customers indigestion
- Customers of the once stand-alone J.D. Edwards used to look forwared to the care and coddling that the enterprise solutions developer was known for providing . But one year after the company was swallowed whole by PeopleSoft, CNET News.com's Alorie Gilbert reports that customers of J.D. Edwards -- including the City of...
- Tags: J.D. Edwards & Co., PeopleSoft Inc.
- Blog posts 2004-07-28
- Microsoft's dilemma
- Microsoft briefly pondered taking a minority stake in PeopleSoft to help it fend off Oracle. "Thinking about this PeopleSoft bid by Oracle made me wonder if we should approach them and suggest a minority investment to bolster their independence in return for a modest platform commitment," Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., PeopleSoft Inc.
- Blog posts 2004-06-23
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