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SAP's A1S and Salesforce.com's Force.com: Brinkmanship at Its Best: SAP's A1S and Salesforce.com's Force.com: Brinkmanship at Its BestAbsolutely Ridiculous - A1S = Way2LateThis advertisement for SAP is ridiculous in its lack of objectivity. Even people inside of SAP are not this bullish (i.e. are more balanced in their analysis) How many years has A1s been under...; Tags: Sales force management, Strategy, product innovation, SAP AG, SAP A1S, Brinkmanship, Force.com, Salesforce.com Inc.; Discussion threads 2007-09-14

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PayPal may ban Safari for being unsafe (updated): PayPal may ban Safari for being unsafe updatedLinux didn't fall because no-one botheredI remember reading a report from one of the participants. Linux didn't fall becuse none of the teams invested any time into it until after the others fell. Whether that was out of the feeling that...; Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, Linux, Apple Mac OS X, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, PWN-TO-OWN, PayPal, Apple Safari, phishing; Discussion threads 2008-04-18
News to know: Vista DRM; EU thumps Microsoft; SAP; DST; SCO: Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Everything you've read about Vista DRM is wrong (Part 1). EU court crushes Microsoft's antitrust appeal. David Morgenstern: Microsoft's Mac Business Unit: Love the sinner, hate the sin. Marc Andreessen: The three kinds of...; Tags: Google Inc., Apple Macintosh, Digital-rights Management, SCO Group Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Currency Trader, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-09-17
SAP's A1S and Salesforce.com's Force.com: Brinkmanship at Its Best: It's going to a hard week for Salesforce.com and Marc Benioff. If the Wall St. Journal's scoop is true (probably is, chances are it was "leaked" to the Journal by Salesforce itself), then whatever thunder Marc was hoping to gather by making his usual blockbuster announcement ("the single most exciting...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., SAP AG, A1S, Joshua Greenbaum; Blog posts 2007-09-14
News to know: Building PCs; Jotspot; Windows Live; iPhone skins: Notable headlines: Garett Rogers: Get ready for JotSpot in Google Docs. Techmeme discussion. Hidden flight simulator application in Google Earth. Robin Harris: Build a $2,500 supercomputer. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Quad-core PC project - Update on the Asus Striker Extreme motherboard. The parts list. Weekend Project...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, PC, Quad-core, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, JotSpot, Cell; Blog posts 2007-09-04

NBC, Apple play game of brinkmanship: NBC, Apple play game of brinkmanshipNBC has more to loseApple will lose a few TV shows from their selection. NBC, meanwhile, will lose their whole online revenue stream. Their alternate way of selling their shows their own custom web service is hopeless in the short or medium-term.Even long-term,...; Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Digital media, game, NBC, Apple Inc.; Discussion threads 2007-08-31
Microsoft ups ante on GPLv3 in apparent challenge to license's reach: Any attempt to tag Microsoft as being "it" on its support coupons for Novell SUSE Linux, and therefore now fall under the terms of the new open source license, will apparently be fought ... or at least sidestepped.Despite assertions that the new GPLv3 released June 29 closes loopholes with GPLv2,...; Tags: GPL, Intellectual Property, Linux, Microsoft, Open Source, Patents, SaaS, Software Infrastructure, Windows; Blog posts 2007-07-06
Sapped to the max: non partisan research: Sapped to the max: non partisan researchSuffering at FirstThe anecdotal story meaning exaggerated of our last major SAP upgrade is that shut down the manufacturing facilities depending on it for two months.The reality of it is that SAP requires clean data to work. That's true of most systems -...; Tags: Sensing Judging, SAP AG; Discussion threads 2006-07-05