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Enterprise software marketing: time for a rethink

It's always nice to see two representatives from the same company writing independently of one another yet looking for much the same answer. In this instance I'm referring to SAPpers and fellow Irregulars Charles Zedlewski and Thomas Otter. Both are highly articulate and quick to defend their company's position (as...

Tags: Marketing, Enterprise Software, Sales, Thomas Otter, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-09-10

Oracle's misconceived SaaS strategy

Oracle's misconceived SaaS strategyWowHere is what I take from Charles Phillips' comments:It is 1997, not 2007, and Oracle is just a database company, not an applications company. Which makes me wonder just what the hell Oracle was doing acquiring PeopleSoft and Siebel.Oracle is in a very good position to...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Storage, Customer relationship management (CRM), Databases, Charles, Oracle Corp., SaaS Model, SaaS Customer, software-as-a-service, UpShot, database

Discussion threads 2007-08-28

Charles Simonyi: From Microsoft Word to outer space

Charles Simonyi is on his way to the International Space Station aboard Expedition 15, which blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 17:31 GMT April 7. Along with other crew members, Charles is slated to rendezvous with the space station on April 9 at 19:15 GMT. He...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2007-04-08

Is salesforce.com's Apex just another procedural language?

Charles Zedlewski of SAP posts about salesforce.coms Apex on his blog. He questions whether the Apex programming language is a big deal. He writes that it is based on eight-year-old technology Java and SQL, isnt in beta yet and is just another non-portable procedural language like SAPs ABAP. Charles...

Tags: Apex

Blog posts 2006-10-11

HP says sorry, but does it matter?

Join CNET News.com's Charles Cooper for this week's Reporters' RJoin CNET News.com's Charles Cooper for this week's Reporters' RoundtableIn the aftermath of new disclosures and increased pressure from California's attorney general, can Hewlett-Packard's embattled Chairwoman Patricia Dunn hang onto her job?

Tags: Charles

Videos 2006-09-09

Charles Manson times ten to the 9th?

Charles Manson times ten to the 9th?Strip him of his title and have him locked in an auditorium.Not a jail cell, but an auditorium. The only others allowed in are of course Police Officers to keep the peace, and survivors of the Holocaust. Families of the survivors. Let the man...

Tags: Holocaust-deniers, Charles Manson, Pianka, Charles

Discussion threads 2006-04-04

Forget Macworld--think Macsnore

Forget Macworld--think MacsnoreUh oh.How dare you make anything less than glowing shillery about Apple. You obviously must be paid off blah blah blah....Insert $ instead of the letter S about 10 times.Irrelevant use of the word monopoly 15 times.That should cover the majority of retarded posts.boringhe never metioned DRM, never...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Cooper, Charles, Apple Inc., Macworld

Discussion threads 2004-01-09

Additional Resources

Microsoft's "flat Earth" ad falls flat for me

Microsoft's "flat Earth" ad falls flat for meI have to agree: The flat Earth thing is funny.Unlike Vista, no one changed the Earth in an attempt to prove the common belief wrong.Microsoft's "flat Earth" ad falls flat for meTom Servo!Crow!The ads aren't that bad, it's just retro.RE: Microsoft'si mentioned all...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), App£e, Microsoft Windows Vista, advertisement, flat-Earth, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

EIC podcast: Apple-Psystar; Intel; High tech in Israel

In this week's EIC squared podcast Dan remains on vacation. Luckily, News.com's always chatty Charles Cooper was around. Coop and I talk about the Apple-Psystar lawsuit, Intel's earnings and the technology landscape in Israel. This week's podcast is a spin-off of the usual banter Coop and I...

Tags: Israel, Intel Corp., Coop, Podcasts, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-17

Oracle's BEA strategy: reassuring the market

  Earlier today, Oracle outlined its strategy regarding the recently acquired BEA portfolio. If I hadn't known it was supposed to be a customer and partner webinar, I'd have thought we were listening to a more detailed re-run of the latest earnings call with Charles Philips talking...

Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Sales Strategy, Public Relations, Strategy, Sales, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Daily Debrief: Yahoo turns the page

News.com's Charles Cooper and Dan Farber discuss the aftermath of the company's long-awaited reorganization news.

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Page, News, charles cooper, dan farber, yahoo, jerry yang, susan decker, microsoft, bill gates, steve ballmer

Videos 2008-06-27

Daily Debrief: How to break the P2P logjam

CNET News.com's Charles Cooper speaks with Webware Editor in Chief Rafe Needleman about what one of the founding fathers of the Internet is doing to resolve the growing problem of peer-to-peer transfers.

Tags: Peer To Peer (P2P), News, charles cooper, rafe needleman, internet, p2p, data packets, broadband, traffic

Videos 2008-06-27

How many people does it take to fill Bill Gates' shoes?

How many people does it take to fill Bill Gates' shoes?What's that about a camel?It will be interesting to see what kind of "horse" they come up with; I suspect that there will be ample confirmation of "apre Bill, le deluge." That, or Brooks was right all along.RE: How...

Tags: Bill Gates, Torre, Charles Torre

Discussion threads 2008-06-23

How many people does it take to fill Bill Gates' shoes?

In a new video interview posted to Microsoft's Channel 9 Web site on June 23, Chairman Bill Gates adds a third group of folks to the list of those who will be filling his shoes after he leaves Microsoft as a full-time employee this month. Gates told Channel 9's Charles...

Tags: Ray Ozzie, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., DeWitt, Flake, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Web Site Development, Software, Internet, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-06-23

Daily Debrief: Can the SS Yahoo steer past the shoals?

After a series of high-profile resignations at Yahoo, Charles Cooper and CNET News.com's Editor-in-chief Dan Farber assess how senior management is likely to respond.

Tags: Editor-in-chief, News, Daily Debrief, Charles Cooper, Yahoo, Microsoft, Delicious, Joshua Schachter, Jerry Yang

Videos 2008-06-20

Googlenomics, Shrugged

Come the morning of September 7, you'll probably go to the Google search box and find a fun-loving in-house artist has replaced the first "o" in the company name with a symbol that looks like a "1" and the second "o" with a slightly altered version...

Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Operational Accounting, Finance, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-06-20

Daily Debrief: Honda's FCX Clarity

CNET News.com's Charles Cooper talks to Editor at Large Brian Cooley about Honda's FCX Clarity, the first commercial hydrogen car on the market.

Tags: Honda Motor Co., Hydrogen, News, daily debrief, charlie cooper, brian cooley, cars, Honda, FCX Clarity, green

Videos 2008-06-19

News to know: Firefox 3.0; iPhone apps; Yahoo; LinkedIn; Millennials

Notable headlines: Jason O'Grady: My most anticipated announced iPhone applications Nate McFeters: Fresh off the press: iPhoneDbg toolkit hotness Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Firefox 3.0 final - First thoughts. Gallery right Ed Burnette: Fake Firefox 3 download links may be hazardous to your...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Hewlett-Packard Co., Yahoo! Inc., LinkedIn, Web Browsers, Data Centers, Internet, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-18

Daily Debrief: How long before a truly 'social' Web?

CNET News.com's Charles Cooper talks with Rafe Needleman of Webware about how trends now coming to the fore in social networking may soon change how we think about the social Web.

Tags: Social Web, Rafe Needleman, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, News, daily debrief, charlie cooper, rage needleman, twitter, social networking, web

Videos 2008-06-17

Apple finally goes RIA

Apple finally goes RIAPlease convince me.How can RIA and privacy coexist? I mean, the same people who are delusional about the patriot act live on myspace, youtube, and facebook where privacy is valueless.i likeits a great start, I think Apple is going in right direction.RE: Apple finally goes RIAThis...

Tags: rich Internet application, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-06-17