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Office 2008 for Mac: The straw that broke the backs of Microsoft's Windows developers?: Could it be that a Macintosh program will be the tipping point for the confidence that ISVs have in Microsoft as a technology partner? One c-level technologist for a Windows enterprise app says "no more" to Redmond's vision. I wrote the other day about Microsoft's Mac Business...; Tags: Developer, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Office, Window, ISV, Microsoft VBA, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Engineer, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, David Morgenstern; Blog posts 2008-05-16
LSB SDK, aka 4.0, could be panacea for Linux app developers .. and Ubuntu: Increasing use of Ubuntu and other Linux distributions globally puts additional pressure -- and costs -- on independent software developers. The Linux Foundation hopes that its fourth stab at a solution, the Linux Standards Base 4.0, will make it much easier and less expensive for ISVs...; Tags: Developer, Ubuntu, Java, ISV, SDK, Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2008-04-23
Hot new open source isvs, projects make the grade at OSBC: Hot new open source ISVs, projects make the grade at OSBCEnglish pleaseWhen something/someone gets notice it is told to quit what this writer means is "got noticed".Please can we have these items in English not some 3rd grader's perception of the languageRE: Hot new open source ISVs, projects make the...; Tags: ISV, open source, open source ISV; Discussion threads 2008-03-28
Microsoft partners with open source JasperSoft, Sourcesense: Microsoft and JasperSoft are working together to ensure that Jasper's business intelligence software suite runs well on the latest editions of Windows and SQL Server. At the Open Source Business Conference at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, Microsoft told ZDNet that the open source BI software...; Tags: JasperSoft, Partnership, ISV, Apache Software Foundation, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2008-03-25
Taking SaaS to market: a European perspective: I was in Frankfurt, Germany, earlier today, attending the opening sessions of the European ISV Convention, which is organized by the folks at IT Europa. Inevitably, SaaS is a hot topic here just as it is for ISVs in the US, and one of the big unanswered questions is, what's...; Tags: Software-as-a-service, ISV, Progress Software Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-02-07

Enterprise SaaS and the cloud: ISVs today have three choices when setting out to build a SaaS application: A. Build the application on your own infrastructure, which you'll have to assemble from scratch using open source and commodity components. B. Build it on a packaged platform from an established application infrastructure...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Andreessen, Software-as-a-service, Platform, ISV, Computing, Force.com, Riskonnect, Software As A Service (SaaS), Sales Force Management, Service Management, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-01-17
Leapblogging: The Salesforce.com Ecosystem Debate, Round II: Leapblogging: The Salesforce.com Ecosystem Debate, Round IIEnterprise Rule of ThumbJosh, the typical rule of thumb to measure the revenues generated in the SAP ecosystem is 10x. Take SAP's license revenue for any given quarter and multiply them by 10 to get a pretty good estimate of how much money...; Tags: Sales force management, SunSHINE, Salesforce.com Inc., Leapblogging, Round II, SFDC, revenue, AppEx, ISV; Discussion threads 2007-11-30
Technical Overview of Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 Beta 1: Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 brings the power of high-performance computing HPC to the commercial mainstream. The centralized management and deployment interface helps to simplify deployment for both large and small compute clusters and provide a simple and effective management experience in order to increase cluster administrator productivity. The Microsoft...; Tags: Job, ISV, High-performance Computing, Windows Communication Foundation, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Microsoft HPC Pack, Microsoft Windows, Recruitment & Selection, Leadership, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management; White papers 2007-11-01
Leopards and development platform strategies: Leopards and development platform strategiesWowNo Mac fans have posted angry, longwinded responses to this yet? And no linux fans have posted sarcastic, dismissive reponses to this yet? Not to mention smug MS fan responses....But seriously folks, I'm not a developer, but I can imagine that the 80%+ marketshare that MS...; Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Scripting languages, In-House, strategy, Microsoft Corp., ISV, Apple Macintosh, developer, Microsoft Windows; Discussion threads 2007-10-30
You can look but you better not touch: You can look but you better not touchDevil's in the details...The problem with the license, even for some proprietary ISVs and VARs, is that when you look at the code, there's a natural tendency to actively incorporate some portion of it(even through extending(1)). Then if Microsoft gets wind what you're...; Tags: Retail, Channel management, Microsoft Corp., concession; Discussion threads 2007-10-03
Global isv Management Tools Help Customers Optimize Unified Communications Systems: California-based Quest Software develops solutions that help organizations maximize their applications, databases, and Windows infrastructure. Its success has earned it more than 50,000 customers and recognition as the Microsoft 2007 Global ISV Partner of the Year. To help customers maximize the value of unified communications, Quest is extending its MessageStats...; Tags: ISV, Unified Communications, Microsoft Corp., Quest Software Inc., Tool, Microsoft Office Communications Server; White papers 2007-10-01
Windows CE Service Pack: Network Client Component/Redirector (Sh3.exe) (EXE): Mips.exe and Sh3.exe are Service Pack files that install the Windows CE Network Client Component also know as the redirector on to your Windows CE device. They allow independent software vendor ISVs to write applications that access remote file resources on servers that support the Common Internet File System CIFS...; Tags: Network, ISV, Service Pack, Microsoft Windows CE, Microsoft Windows, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware; Software downloads 2007-09-17
Windows CE Service Pack: Network Client Component/Redirector (Mips.exe) (EXE): Mips.exe and Sh3.exe are Service Pack files that install the Windows CE Network Client Component also know as the redirector on to your Windows CE device. They allow independent software vendor ISVs to write applications that access remote file resources on servers that support the Common Internet File System CIFS...; Tags: Network, ISV, Service Pack, Microsoft Windows CE, Microsoft Windows, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware; Software downloads 2007-08-30
SaaS now ready to succeed where ASPs failed -- especially for smaller businesses: Read a full transcript of the podcast. There is an entire universe of suppliers and vendors that support the delivery of applications as on-demand services. Indeed, the Software as a Service SaaS model is attracting more than end users who acquire their IT via user-per-month service subscriptions....; Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Microsoft ASP, ISV, Business Model, Service Provider, Market, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Emerging Technologies, Management, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2007-08-29
Novell CEO calls for new Linux distro isv standard, praises FSF: Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian said the Linux industry must create a vendor neutral standard for application development or face the same fragmentation that killed Unix.Speaking before a packed audience at LinuxWorld at the Moscone Center Wednesday, the Novell CEO said the Linux Standards Base LSB is a good start but...; Tags: Novell Inc., Linux, Free Software Foundation, ISV, Microsoft Corp., Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2007-08-08
Windows losing ground to Linux clients -- how far off can the servers be?: Martin LaMonica at CNET has a blog on a new Evans Data survey that shows erosion on developer allegiance to Windows client ports.This makes for some interesting reading, along with the comments. I wonder who sponsored, if anyone, the survey.I can't vouch for the survey integrity, but the findings jibe...; Tags: .NET, Apple, Internet, Linux, Microsoft, Open Source, SaaS, SOA, Software Development, Software Infrastructure, Virtualization, Vista, Web Services, Windows; Blog posts 2007-07-03
Zip Express (dmg): Zip Express is a free, no hassle, ad-free software application for Mac OS X Universal compatibility that gives you complete control of Zip archives. With Zip Express you can now easily create new Zip archives, open archives without unzipping them, add, remove and change the contents of zip files as...; Tags: Archive, ISV, Zip Express, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Software, Management; Software downloads 2007-06-06
An isv's Guide to Achieving Business Advantage through Faster Application Problem Resolution: There's no debate that software errors are costly. But when software is your business, the impact of application problems can be devastating. This paper presents 3 case studies that demonstrate how leading ISVs are optimizing application development processes with application problem resolution technology to gain a competitive advantage.; Tags: Software, BMC Software Inc., ISV, Tools & Techniques, It Management, Software Development, Management, It service Management, Software/Web Development; White papers 2007-05-07
Microsoft to help other software vendors go the SaaS route: While Microsoft is attempting to distance itself from other software-as-a-service SaaS players, the Redmond software company is trying to help other software makers move to the SaaS distribution model. On April 16, Microsoft unveiled the Microsoft SaaS Incubation Center program -- an initiative designed to match up independent software...; Tags: Web 2.0, SQL Server, Google, Exchange Server, Database, Corporate strategy; Blog posts 2007-04-16
Partners use Amazon EC2 and S3 to move the needle on infrastructure as a service: Several announcements show that the Amazon infrastructure-as-a-service model is gaining serious traction, helping todays start-ups/ISVs/SaaS providers quickly create consumer and business services without an IT capital spending budget.LignUp and rPath are leveraging Amazons Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2) and Simple Storage Service (S3) to historically relieve developers of infrastructure worries and...; Tags: TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VOIP, Web services, partnership, EC2, Amazon.com Inc., rPath, LignUp Commmunications Applications Server, rBuilder, ISV, developer, S3 Inc., voice; Blog posts 2007-03-22