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Oracle first quarter expected to be mixed, but 'not a disaster'

Oracle steps up to the earnings plate Thursday and could face a rough crowd. Wall Street is battered and has no tolerance for any earnings--even decent reports. No matter what Oracle says every word will be parsed to gauge the demand outlook. Adam Holt, analyst at Morgan...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Application License Revenue, Financial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Government, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-18

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Figuring the value of software

Phil Wainewright's discussion about the cost of running highly scalable SaaS applications like SuccessFactors comes at the right time. He says: Speaking in the opening keynote of SIIA OnDemand in San Jose this morning, SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard let slip a statistic that set several...

Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, SuccessFactors Inc., SAP AG, Phil Wainewright, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-02

The maintenance renewal landscape

A small and therefore statistically dubious quarterly CIO survey undertaken by Kash Rangan's team at Bank of America Merrill Lynch published earlier this month makes revealing reading. On the general spending front, it should be no surprise that the survey believes CIO's are under spending relative...

Tags: Revenue, SAP AG, Maintenance Fee, Maintenance Revenue, Data Centers, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Team Management, Operational Accounting, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-23

Art of the software deal can get messy

Software buyers and vendors are increasingly butting heads amid a budget squeeze and increasingly aggressive sales tactics, according to Gartner. In a series of presentations at the Gartner IT Symposium in Orlando, analysts walked buyers through a few negotiating tactics with the likes of SAP, Microsoft, Oracle,...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Gartner Inc., Customer, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Negotiation, Software Audit, Software-as-a-service Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Linux, Free Trade, Sales Strategy, Management, Operating Systems, Software, Finance, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-20

A look at On2 Technologies and why Google wants it

It's not very often that Google makes an acquisition and the target inspires a collective "who?" But that's what happened when the search giant bought On2 Technologies, a penny stock trading in obscurity on the American Stock Exchange, for 60 cents a share. And unless you've followed the wonderful world...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., On2 Technologies, Video, H.264, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-05

What's Microsoft's next billion-dollar business? (Hint: it's not search)

What's Microsoft's next billion-dollar business? (Hint: it's not search)Typo"Business Productivity Online Services, Windows Azure, desktop virtualization, storage Data Protection Manager and identity ser[b]v[/b]ices."Me: I would really work much harder on mobileI think Microsoft is doing the right thing in the Enterprise space. I even think it is a...

Tags: Research & Development, Collaboration, Groupware, Content management, Enterprise software, NOW IT, Microsoft Corp., billion-dollar business, R&D, Microsoft SharePoint

Discussion threads 2009-08-03

Two questions about Microsoft's future ...

Two questions about Microsoft's future ...The evil of subscriptionHow would an OS subscription be anything other than a complete rip-off to the end user? There are so many reasons why a subscription system would fail and fail badly. The cost of implementation, activation issues, anti-piracy concerns. All of this and...

Tags: Piracy, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Corp., antipiracy, operating system, software

Discussion threads 2009-07-30

Read the fine print in Microsoft's new application platform license

Read the fine print in Microsoft's new application platform licenseAs it should be...You need to pay to play with these fine products. If a company is so short-sighted that they let their APA run out, they deserve to be stripped of all products covered under said APA. Microsoft is slaving...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Operational accounting, new application platform, Microsoft Corp., fine print, application platform, APA

Discussion threads 2009-07-16

SAP to bounce?

Larry Dignan pinged me to say the financial analysts are showing renewed interest in SAP with several positive comments on the likely outcome to its Q2 results, due for release on July, 29th: That take is a mixed bag in the things are less worse camp. The biggest argument...

Tags: NetSuite Inc., SAP AG, Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Financial Planning, Enterprise Software, Management, Finance, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-09

Oracle spinning its numbers a tad too much?

Michael Hickins at BNet accuses Oracle of 'lying' about its competitive position vis-a-vis SAP. Such statements are always fraught with difficulty for several reasons: The year ends are five months apart The economy has been changing over time Currency rates are...

Tags: Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Sales Strategy, Financial Management, Operational Accounting, Sales Force Management, Financial Accounting, Tools & Techniques, Sales, Financial Planning, Finance, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-06-25

Microsoft Money Just Wants to Be Free

Microsoft is abandoning its personal finance software, Microsoft Money, after over 16 years of development and marketing. But why abandon perfectly good software when it could be released to the community as an Open Source project? This week, Microsoft announced its...

Tags: Be Free, Microsoft Money, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Personal Finance, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-06-12

Windows 7: The incentives are coming

Windows 7: The incentives are comingIncentivesI don't think Microsoft has to offer any great incentives. If they want people to move to Windows 7, they just need to sell it for a reasonable price. No more then ?100 for Home Premium, and it will be worth the upgrade. Im all...

Tags: Sales force management, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, computing history, Microsoft Windows 7, incentive, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-06-02

Cutting software maintenance costs 101

Maintenance and support costs are increasingly gobbling up more of your IT budget despite the occasional bone thrown to you from your friendly neighborhood software vendor. The larger question is what can be done about this maintenance inflation.  Luckily Forrester Research has a few answers.  ...

Tags: Software, Software Company, Vendor, Shelfware, Forrester Research Inc., Maintenance Revenue, Tools & Techniques, Software As A Service (SaaS), Strategy, Management, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-12

Citrix C3 â€" Where are the partners?

Citrix put some significant new meat on the bones of its Citrix Cloud Center (C3) offering last week but left behind one crucial element. Who are the partners delivering this offering? At its annual customer get together, Citrix Synergy 2009, the company fulfilled our prediction of the true...

Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., Internet Service Provider, Service Provider, Internet Service, Citrix C3 Strategy, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Business Services, Internet, James Staten

Blog posts 2009-05-11

Apache or GPL?

Apache or GPL?Are pigs flying.This was an unbiased article and an excellent read.Name me one company that makes a LOT of moneyusing GPL'd code.Hint: $25 million a YEAR Red Hat earnings is NOT a lot of money.$9.74 billion a QUARTER Apple IS a lot of money.False Premise"On the other hand,...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, GPL, Apache Software Foundation

Discussion threads 2009-04-29

News to know: Google; iBotnet; Cisco; Microsoft

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Google earnings deliver; Sales growth slows; Economy still in 'uncharted territory' Statement: GOOGLE ANNOUNCES FIRST QUARTER 2009...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Macintosh, Information Technology, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Twitter, IBM Corp., Desktops, Strategy, Open Source, Hardware, Management

Blog posts 2009-04-17

Q&A: Kronos CEO Aron Ain on ERP, Saas and the joys of being privately held

Kronos, a human capital management software company, revolves around good timing. For starters, it tracks employee work time, scheduling and other work processes to improve productivity. It also managed to go public back in 1992, make a bunch of acquisitions and then go private in 2007 just before the economy...

Tags: Kronos Inc., ERP, Human Capital, Recruitment & Selection, Tools & Techniques, Software As A Service (SaaS), Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-06

Where to for revenue recognition?

Fellow Irregulars Phil Wainewright and Jason Corsello are batting around the implementation services revenue recognition issue following Taleo's restatement of earnings. Phil uses it as a reason to take a sideways swipe at the on-premise vendors: I wonder what the impact on SAP, Oracle and Accenture’s financials would be...

Tags: Revenue, Taleo Corp., Phil, Revenue Recognition, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-03-25

Microsoft: Litigate on FAT, and you'll be the next Unisys

Microsoft: Litigate on FAT, and you'll be the next Unisysread my lipsM$ threts are worth $0.00, even if they succeed, which they will not.When the OS is free their claim is N X $0.00 = ZERO, NADA.RE: Microsoft: Litigate on FAT, and you'll be the next UnisysNice conspiracy there... Microsoft...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Linux, FAT32, Unisys Corp., patent

Discussion threads 2009-03-05

Coders urged to take up open source in downturn

Coders urged to take up open source in downturnAnother good point: Open Source gives programmers more options. If oneemployer goes under or lays you off, your knowledge of the product will get you a job at another company working in the same area. You can also strike out on your...

Tags: learning curve, eTrade, open source, Free Software

Discussion threads 2009-03-03