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- The End of SaaS? Or Just the End of Hype?
- The End of SaaS? Or Just the End of Hype?Hype is not necessaryCustomers are not turning to SaaS for the financial merits of cheaper software licensing. The cost of the software is about the same as traditional software, it is the cost of maintaining the software and the hardware that...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, Tools & Techniques, IT Services, Service-now.com, SaaS Model, software-as-a-service, software
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Salesforce quarter on target
- Salesforce quarter on targetIs Salesforce.com the new ADP ... or the next Datapoint?This headline recently appeared in several places across the Web:"Salesforce.com Passes $1 Billion Annual Revenue Mark"THIS IS NOT TRUE. I don't know whether this material misstatement arose from media manipulation or an honest mistake, but it's genesis...
- Tags: Sales force management, payroll solutions, Salesforce.com Inc., Datapoint, Automatic Data Processing Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-24
- Dell bets on Salesforce.com's platform as a service
- Dell bets on Salesforce.com's platform as a serviceDeferred revenues?I don't buy the deferred revenue argument. It doesn't make sense. If anything, having larger enterprise deals helps SFdC because it means the running Q's have guaranteed levels of income. Checking the last couple of Q's, there's no real change in deferreds...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, cloud computing, Operational accounting, Salesforce.com Inc., SFdC, PaaS, revenue, sales, Dell Computer Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-21
- Study takes close look at Desktop Linux
- Datapoint has the scoop on a report that zeroes in on the practical considerations for organizations thinking about a desktop operating system migration to Linux. While offering no surprise conclusions (Linux on the desktop still has a long way to go…), the free--with registration--report from Europe's Quocirca is a worthwhile...
- Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, UNIX, Linux, desktop, Datapoint, desktop Linux
- Blog posts 2005-04-20
- Datapoint: SOA is a priority
- Wondering where SOA and web services rank in terms of IT priorities? Right in the middle of the pack. According to ZD Research (and compliments of our sister blog, Datapoint), the latest findings from our IT Priorities survey of IT professionals in organizations with 500 or more employees show......wired and...
- Tags: SOA
- Blog posts 2005-02-10
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- Teradata unveils cloud strategy, answer for Oracle's Exadata machine
- Data warehousing giant Teradata is outlining its cloud computing strategy including an internal cloud service and a public offering via Amazon Web Services. In addition, Teradata is rolling out an appliance it claims will provide a big performance boost. The announcements, timed for Teradata's partner conference in...
- Tags: Strategy, Data Warehouse, Teradata, Oracle Corp., Performance Claim, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- Apple refreshes desktop lineup: Is the Mac mini irrelevant?
- Apple on Tuesday outlined a refresh of its iMac, Mac Pro and Mac mini lineups and the headliners are the Intel Nehalem-based Mac Pro and the iMac 24-inch update. However, perusing the updates you have to wonder if the Mac mini is irrelevant. First, the highlights, which...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Intel Mac Mini, Apple Inc., Desktops, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-03
- A checkpoint on Web 2.0 in the enterprise, Part 2
- A new survey of the personal use of Web 2.0 applications by CIOs emerged late last week and provided another interesting, if high-level, datapoint about the future of Web 2.0 in the enterprise. Carried out by CIO Insight, the survey reported the usual trends like high rates of use...
- Tags: Web, Web 2.0, AJAX, Network, Ruby On Rails, Idea, Product, Business, Amazon.com Inc., Semantic Web, Office 2.0, Jury, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2007-08-27
- A Little Transparency Could Go a Long Way: Oracle's Opacity Crisis
- A Little Transparency Could Go a Long Way: Oracle's Opacity CrisisWhere's the organic growth?Mr. Di Bona is right on the money. When I back out the Hyperion effect I calculate just under 10% application new license growth. That's for the quarter. For the fiscal year, Oracle reports a 32% gain...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Hyperion Solutions Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-06-28
- Amidst questionable benchmarking choices, AMD "claims" speed title with new Opteron 2222SE
- In a release of benchmarks that is could fuel the fires of benchmark controversy which are already blazing hot, AMD today is announcing the official release of its Opteron 2222SE processor. Its the 3 Ghz version of the dual-core Opteron (a 90 nm part of the Opteron family once code-named...
- Tags: IT Management, Hardware Infrastructure, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- Study finds near-zero growth in methane levels
- Study finds near-zero growth in methane levelsCutting emmisions is uselessWhile emmission are a problem and cutting them could help it would only help if at the same time the populations of the world stopped destroy old growth rain forest and started planting more trees.The problem today is we can't cut...
- Tags: emmision, gigaton, carbon dioxide
- Discussion threads 2006-11-20
- Next page and gallery promo test
- In a release of benchmarks that could fuel the fires of benchmark controversy which are already blazing hot, AMD today is announcing the official release of its Opteron 2222SE processor. Its the 3 Ghz version of the dual-core Opteron (a 90 nm part of the Opteron family once code-named Santa...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2006-04-09
- Design guru distills iPod's 'X factor'
- Patent wielding competitors lusting over the huge success of Apple's iPod digital music player should put down their litigation swords and figure out what gives the product its 'X factor' in the first place. Core77, a site for industrial design fanatics, has a great analysis of Apple's design strategy by...
- Tags: transference, Apple Computer Inc., James Conley
- Blog posts 2006-01-05
- Paced by IP telephony, wired and wireless ranks as top enterprise IT priority
- Over on our Datapoint blog, colleague Chris Jablonski parses the results of the latest IT Priorities Research Program data.As Chris notes: Every 30 days, the ZDNet Enterprise Research Team selects a representative sample of 500 IT managers who work in organizations of more than 500 employees. We ask them...
- Tags: information technology
- Blog posts 2005-09-07
- Intel's Otellini's new normal
- Intel's new CEO Paul Otellini (and a 30-year veteran of the company) kicked off the Intel Developer Forum with a new line and sigh of relief: Growth is back. "Count on us to continue the relentless pursuit of Moore's Law, new levels of performance, energy efficiency and communications," he said...
- Tags: Intel Corp., Paul Otellini
- Blog posts 2005-08-23
- Search for top Gartner alternative comes up empty handed
- Search for top Gartner alternative comes up empty handedWhat are you asking for?[ IDC and Forrester, which have a large scope but distinct agendas]A TRUE scientific research group MUST follow the data - wherever it leads. Unfortunetly that's NOT a good way to make a commercial business, which manipulates...
- Tags: Gartner Inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-08-16
- Enterprise VoIP trends: Numbers only tell part of the story
- Over at our Datapoint blog, colleague Liz Lightfoot points to new Gartner Research that shows the percentage of enterprises planning for VoIP solutions has more than doubled in the last six months.The exact percentages have risen from 15% in January to the latest level of 35%. That's off somewhat from...
- Tags: VoIP
- Blog posts 2005-08-02
- Why Websense's FUD doesn't add up
- In response to one ZDNet reader's question regarding a previous post (see: Questionable $178B loss: Employees' fault? Or management's?), I decided to, as best as I possibly could, figure out how Websense might have arrived at such a huge number to represent the total annual dollar losses that can...
- Tags: Websense Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-07-20
- SAP heading into software-as-a-service?
- In a story today, News.com's Matt Hines reports on whether, or when, SAP will jump into the hosted/on-demand/SaaS applications business a la salesforce.com. Previously, SAP CEO Henning Kagermann said: "When on-demand came up, we at SAP felt we should be careful...that on-demand is not the next locked-in strategy. With on-demand,...
- Tags: SAP AG
- Blog posts 2005-07-01
- Licensing is Strategy
- I got a great note from Paul Murphy today. He suggested I take another look at mixed licensing of open and closed source products and mentioned Sun's CDDL, as used in Open Solaris. I'd like to go Paul one better, and suggest that in the Linux world, licensing is strategy....
- Tags: GPL, Red Hat Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-06-02
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