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- The End of SaaS? Or Just the End of Hype?
- Lawson CEO Harry Debes started -- or rather continued -- a brouhaha that's getting some pixels in the blogosphere, and his position is worth commenting on for both its courage foolhardy and its excess hyperbolically so. According to Harry, the SaaS market will collapse in two years time, due to...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Customer Choice, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- SaaS market will 'collapse' in two years
- Lawson's CEO, Harry Debes says SaaS is the third attempt at "on demand" in his lifetime and predicts it will take the same path as the first two--to oblivion. Lawson's CEO, Harry Debes, doesn't believe in software-as-a-service SaaS. ...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Software as a service, SaaS, software, Lawson, Asia, Victoria Ho, ZDNet Asia
- News items 2008-08-28
- Attention Craig Newmark: Citizens aren't customers
- Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, has offered a thoughtful but misguided palliative at CNN to the shortcomings of the age of networked democracy. ... if you know how Americans use the Net to talk, you can easily stay in touch with real people. ...
- Tags: Politics, Democracy, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- MediaMax / The Linkup: When the cloud fails
- Online storage service MediaMax, also called The Linkup, went out of business following a system administration error that deleted active customer data. The defunct company raises questions about the reliability of cloud computing. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Information Technology, Data, Failure, Storage, Hardware, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- The enterprise: All fun and 'serious games'?
- Will video games becoming to an enterprise near you? Forrester Research seems to think so as companies cook up new ways to train employees--especially those so-called millennial. I can hear the laughter now. Video games? We're about serious business, you'll say. What's the ROI you'll ask? Video...
- Tags: Forrester Research Inc., Games, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Dems: Broadband policy crucial but so-far nonexistent
- Dems: Broadband policy crucial but so-far nonexistentCustomer centric?Have a look at the IRS on the question of taxpayers filing electronically without paying a middleman.
- Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, Broadband Policy, so-far, Dems, broadband
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- Dems: Broadband policy crucial but so-far nonexistent
- John McCain can't get online without his wife's help, but the storyline is that doesn't matter because as former chair of the Commerce Committee, McCain is intimately familiar with tech policy issues. At panels at the Demo Convention today, Democrats assailed that argument, saying that, ""On McCain's...
- Tags: Broadband, John McCain, Government, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Microsoft to target Windows XP Pro users with Genuine 'nagware' notifications
- Microsoft to target Windows XP Pro users with Genuine 'nagware' notificationsI don't know what difference it will makePeople who love Windows will still love Windows. People who hate Windows will still hate Windows. People who pirate Windows will still pirate Windows.RE: Microsoft to target Windows XP Pro users with Genuine...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Pro user, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- HP closes EDS purchase; Outlines services exec line-up
- HP on Tuesday said it completed its $13.9 billion acquisition of EDS and announced its management team for its services unit. With the EDS purchase, HP's services business will have annual revenue of more than $38 billion and 210,000 employees. Now the integration begins. HP CEO Mark...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Senior Vice President, Outsourcing, Data Centers, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Webcast: Spend Your Capital on Your Customers - Not Your IT
- As Web-based businesses and SMBs adopt more sophisticated technology to stay competitive, they often struggle to meet the high capital costs and expertise required to manage these technologies. Web and IT hosting offers an effective alternative--whereby hardware, software and support are provided as a service. You get enterprise-class Web...
- Tags: The Planet.com Internet Services Inc., Managed Hosting, Webcast, Information Technology, Web Hosting, It Services, Strategy, Internet, Management
- Webcasts 2008-08-26
- Amphis - Customer (msi)
- Amphis - Customer is a customer database that makes it easier to generate quotes and invoices, manage your email, keep track of who owes you money, send reminders, store correspondence and sales history. Email templates allow you to send standard emails and standard email replies including attachments. Reminders help you...
- Tags: Invoice, Amphis Software, Itemised, E-mail, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Online Communications, Sales
- Software downloads 2008-08-26
- Office 2.0: Eating our own dogfood...
- It's been a fascinating experience helping Ismael Ghalimi organize the third Office 2.0 Conference, which runs from September 3rd to 5th at San Francisco's St Regis Hotel. As well as the terrific group of sessions and speakers we've organized, plus the action packed 'unconference' ...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Amazon.com Inc., Conference, Session, Office 2.0, Office20.com, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- IDF and the new Mac notebooks
- The Intel Developer Forum makes it clear what Apple's new notebooks - which I predict will be announced Tuesday, September 16 - will offer. Will it be worth the wait? If longer battery life and higher performance are important to you - yes. And if you weren't...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Graphics, IDF, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Office 2.0: 'Conversations' prevent IT failure
- Cultural issues are among the key drivers causing acute IT problems. Project failure rates remain high in large part because these drivers are difficult to identify and diagnose. Many organizations accept information silos as a cost of doing business, despite the clear negative impact of these boundaries...
- Tags: Information Technology, Project Failure, Office 2.0, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Qwest CTO on FTTP, bandwidth caps and integrated services
- Qwest plans to roll out integrated home services where it ties its services in with those from its partners such as MSN and DirecTV in a move enabled by a thin layer of software, according to Qwest CTO Pieter Poll. Poll right talked about Qwest's broadband strategy...
- Tags: Bandwidth, Qwest Communications Inc., Service, West, Cable, Network Technology, Fiber Optics, Broadband Internet, Optical Networking, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Vertical line issue also plagues some iMacs
- Vertical line issue also plagues some iMacsWhat part is breaking?The video chip on the mobo or the LCD?Good spooky story timingMy four year old Dell LCD monitor (1704FPTT) began displaying a vertical yellow line, or two, recently. Mine is still sporadic, but I'm sure it will stay or get...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, Notebooks, Desktops, Processors, Apple Store, Dual-Core box, Apple Inc., line issue, monitor, LCD
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
- Olympics set the stage for Web tech fight
- The summer Olympic games provided the first battleground for a war between Microsoft and Adobe over the Internet's next big competition. SEATTLE--As the world's best athletes competed in Beijing, the summer Olympic games set the stage for a battle between Microsoft and Adobe over the Internet's next big competition....
- Tags: Software, Developer, Adobe Systems Inc., Web, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Flash, Channel Management, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Management, Reuters, Adobe, Microsoft, Silverlight, video
- News items 2008-08-25
- Intuit: software and services. Are you kidding me?
- I must admit to have been befuddled by Larry Dignan's interpretation of Intuit's current go to market strategy as analogous to Microsoft's software plus services mantra. This is the salient quote from Intuit's Q4 earnings call my emphasis added: We've talked about the fact that our growth for the...
- Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Intuit Inc., Payroll, Intuit QuickBooks, Service, SaaS Offering, Software As A Service (SaaS), Operational Accounting, Cloud Computing, Payroll Solutions, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- AMD slims down, sells digital TV business to Broadcom
- AMD slims down, sells digital TV business to BroadcomDigital TV products...So, does this mean there won't be any AMD TV Wonder/HDTV Wonder and All-in-Wonder products anymore that usees those chips?Slimmer? leaner?Nope, this isn't 'slimmer' or 'leaner', it is all about, "we need some cash, and we need it urgently'. I...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, digital television, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Broadcom Corp., TV, ATI Technologies Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
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