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Better build those barricades real high

Better build those barricades real highGreenbaum's rightThere may be a significant business in serving small businesses, but I think the enterprise market ultimately belongs inside the firewall.RE: Better build those barricades real highTruth be known I don't think any of us have a real clue the value of the VSB...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., barricade, Greenbaum

Discussion threads 2007-09-08

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News to know: SAP; Microsoft patches; Nvidia; iPhone

Notable headlines: Dennis Howlett: SAP: Oracle price-gouges customers even more than we do Michael Krigsman: Business Objects Influencer Summit: Strategy to execution Larry Dignan: Microsoft plugs IE, Office in big patch haul Roland Piquepaille: No more need for...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, NVidia Corp., Patch Management, SAP AG, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, 3G, E-books, Web Browsers, Linux, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-08-13

Expensive Oil, Stupid Trade Groups, and Pending Enterprise Software Growth

USA Today had an interesting article today that calls into question a few of the doomsday scenarios that have dominated US policy-makers and those for whom policy has been made over the last decade or so. And in the process America's newspaper debunks some stupid policy issues on the subject...

Tags: Oil, Enterprise Software, NAM, Manufacturing, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-08-12

News to know: Microsoft Midori; Sub $600 PCs; Dell; Neosploit; SOA

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: More tech details emerge on Microsoft's 'Midori' What if Apple had conducted the 'Mojave Experiment'? Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Microsoft, In Search Of Itself Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The 'Mojave Experiment' - Just an exercise in guided clicking or does it...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., PC, Malware, SOA, Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, BIOS, Mergers & Acquisitions, Web Services, Viruses And Worms, Security, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Components, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-30

Friendly Fire: SAP Flubs the Maintenance Business

You'd think, based on the timing, that Oracle was trying to deliberately make a PR run on what was looking like, and turned out to be, some pretty good news for SAP. The day before SAP's nice looking Q2 earnings call, Oracle upped the ante in its lawsuit against SAP...

Tags: Maintenance, Customer, SAP AG, Roi/Tco, Public Relations, Software Upgrade, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-07-29

News to know: Apple, Crapware; Icahn and Yahoo; Brocade

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Apple's Mac shipments surge; Lowballs on outlook; Jobs health worries Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple reports record Q3 08 Does Apple need to announce a post Steve Jobs plan? Dennis Howlett: Apple chaos theory Jason O'Grady: Apple Q3 2008...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Sony Corp., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Apple Inc., Mice, Utility Computing, 3G, Open Source, Hardware, Peripherals, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2008-07-22

Unintended Consequences and the Future of Maintenance Revenue: SAP Jettisons TomorrowNow

When Shai Agassi called me in early 2005, he asked me a loaded question: How would I respond if SAP decided to take the fight to Oracle by providing third party maintenance for Oracle's recently acquired PeopleSoft customers? I told him it would be an incredibly aggressive move, but that...

Tags: Revenue, Maintenance, Oracle Corp., Customer, SAP AG, TomorrowNow, Software As A Service (SaaS), Public Relations, Tools & Techniques, Mergers & Acquisitions, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-07-21

News to know Monday

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Yahoo rejects latest Microsoft-Icahn proposal; Calls Microsoft 'erratic' WSJ: New Rejection from Yahoo Sets The Stage for Ugly Fight Dana Blankenhorn: We don't want you to talk, Mr. Ballmer Murdoch says News Corp, Yahoo tie-up very unlikely ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, sdiaz

Blog posts 2008-07-14

Vista To Win in the Enterprise, The Ugly Way

I came away from this week's Microsoft Worldwide Partner WPC conference convinced, finally, that the future of Vista is assured in the enterprise. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't because of anything Microsoft said -- the combined mea culpa/back atcha delivered by Microsoft's Brad Brooks, the Corporate Vice President in...

Tags: Desktop, Information Technology, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-07-11

News to know: iPhone; DNS patch; Online privacy; VMware; Vista

Notable headlines: Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: A Modest Privacy Proposal Richard Koman: Congress looks at next-gen ad networks Techmeme: iPhone reviews Matthew Miller: MSM Apple iPhone reviews are up and may just have saved me some cash ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, DNS, Online Privacy, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., HP iPAQ 910, 3G, Domain Names, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-09

Deskless Workers, Useless Services: Microsoft Online Misses the Mark

I spend a lot of time tracking the deskless souls who inhabit the workworld, the factory workers, nurses and others who spend more time on their feet and less time on their butts than the rest of us. So I was all ears as Stephen Elop, Microsoft's latest Business Division...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Worker, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-07-08

News to know: Apple patches; Adobe; XP-Vista; Yahoo

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Apple plugs 25 Mac OS X security vulnerabilities. David Morgenstern: Apple releases Leopard 10.5.4 update Apple update notice. Robin Harris: Why computers fail Adobe: Adobe Advances Rich Media Search on the Web ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Web, Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., Patch Management, Apple Inc., IBM Consulting Service, Web 2.0, 3G, Microsoft Windows, Channel Management, Open Source, Internet, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing

Blog posts 2008-07-01

My 15 minutes with Bill Gates, and how the Web was born

Once upon a time, when Bill Gates still flew commercial and I was a budding journalist in need of a haircut, I had a number of opportunities to interview and otherwise interact with Bill Gates. It was often contentious, always intriguing, and more often than not frustrating as well. Part...

Tags: Web, Multimedia, PC, Bill Gates, Bill, Desktops, Hardware, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-06-30

News to know: Adobe; XP era ends; Enterprise 2.0; Apple

Notable headlines: Dancho Danchev: How to recover GPcode encrypted files? Larry Dignan: Adobe ups outlook; Creative Suite chugs along XP era ends: Will Vista step up? Techmeme eBay: New belle of Microsoft's merger ball? MySpace plays more spam Whac-a-Mole;...

Tags: Software, Adobe Systems Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows XP, Apple Inc., Enterprise 2.0, Mergers & Acquisitions, Internet, Tools & Techniques, Channel Management, Investment, Finance, Management, Marketing

Blog posts 2008-06-17

Salesforce.com, Partners, and Value-Added SaaS

As the resident Salesforce.com basher at ZDNet, it is with some smugness that I am watching the birth of a fellow naysayer on the future of Salesforce.com's efforts to break forth from its CRM on-demand origins into its next big thing. The new critic in the Salesforce.com-watcher camp belongs to...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, SFDC, Force.com, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-06-16

News to know: Vista search; Android; Gmail

Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Fixing Windows Vista, Part 5: Faster, smarter search Phil Wainewright: Scaling the cloud, deflating the price of software Ed Burnette: 50 questions asked and answered on Android News.com: Google to let users test new...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, E-mail Providers, H-1B, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-05

Google To Get A Lesson in Security, From the Pros

Having just read that Google is taking up residence at Moffett Field, a storied air base in Mountain View that is home to NASA's Ames Research Center, among others, I realized there's a great opportunity for Google to learn a little about high end security, at least the kind that...

Tags: Google Inc., Security, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-06-05

News to know: Apple; AMD; Metasploit; Yahoo; Open SUSE

Notable headlines: Jason O'Grady: Wagering on WWDC 2008 TUAW: Rumor: Mac OS X 10.6 to debut at WWDC 08? News.com: Third-party iPhone applications to arrive Monday Tech Trader Daily: How Big Is The Potential Market For the Apple iPhone? ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., SuSE, E-TEN, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2008-06-04

Taking on Excel, and Winning, Sort Of.

It's common knowledge that, when trying to find a true market leader in mid-market enterprise software, the "other" category is by far the largest, despite the efforts of Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, Lawson, Infor, and pretty much any vendor with dreams of high volume sales to capture true market dominance. ...

Tags: Enterprise Software, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-06-03

News to know: Microsoft's social bookmarking; Google vs. Viacom; Adventures in Linux; Facebook

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft to showcase social bookmarking at TechEd Larry Dignan: Google: Viacom's YouTube lawsuit threatens DMCA. Full complaint. Techmeme Ed Bott: Why is fear-mongering such a popular security sales tactic? ...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Mobile, Social Bookmarking, Malware, Microsoft Corp., Viacom Inc., Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Linux, Advertising & Promotion, Security, Viruses And Worms, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing

Blog posts 2008-05-27