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The maintenance renewal landscape

A small and therefore statistically dubious quarterly CIO survey undertaken by Kash Rangan's team at Bank of America Merrill Lynch published earlier this month makes revealing reading. On the general spending front, it should be no surprise that the survey believes CIO's are under spending relative...

Tags: Revenue, SAP AG, Maintenance Fee, Maintenance Revenue, Data Centers, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Team Management, Operational Accounting, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-23

Oracle cranks up some prices 40%

Oracle cranks up some prices 40%A Sign the Economy is getting better?So, now that the money will start flowing again, we want to be sure that we get our share. Thank you and god bless.-Larry Maintenance is usually on list priceEven if you get a 90% purchase discount, the...

Tags: Free trade, Oracle Corp., maintenance fee, operating margin

Discussion threads 2009-07-17

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Is MySQL an "albatross" around the neck of Larry Ellison?

The EC is CLUELESSAbsolutely NOTHING changes about MySQL or its license open source with the buy out.infiltrated M$ agents are obfuscating this issueThe MySql should be a slam dunk, but M$ agents are feeding false information to the commision to harm OSS.Are you sure about that?MySql (and of course SUN...

Tags: Databases, MySQL, open source, Larry Ellison, Microsoft Corp., agent

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

The maintenance renewal landscape

Been doing this for years.Work for a non-profit, so unless its mission critical or has a high cost of replacement... its not going to get renewed.I think everyone should live by this rule. If they did, software maintenance would be much cheaper!SAP, Oracle very Different on Dependence on MaintenanceI'll...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, Operational accounting, cloud computing, SAP AG, Oracle Corp., SaaS Model, revenue, software

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

Alas, Poor Blackberry, I knew him.

After two and a half years with the BlackBerry platform, my romance with Research In Motion has come to an end. October brings the Fall. The leaves turning colors, the weather getting colder. Wireless carrier contracts being canceled. I...

Tags: RIM BlackBerry, Mobile Device, Handhelds, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-01

Intuit service shows how little patients count

OpportunityIf I wanted to make a lot of money spamming people, I'd just send out phony doctor bills.Nobody has any idea how many bills they are supposed to be getting, or how much they are supposed to be. One more for "lab fees" would probably get paid by a...

Tags: Insurance, Intuit Inc., patient, vet

Discussion threads 2009-09-25

Lawn Service Assistant 1.3 (Windows)

Professional lawn care business software. Now you can keep track of all past tree service jobs, lawn mowing job or snow removal jobs. Use the calendar to schedule anything you want, such as appointments or equipment maintenance. You can use the scheduler to find the best fit by viewing dates,...

Tags: Job, Customer, Microsoft Windows, Lawn, Binary House Software, Recruitment & Selection, Backups, Viruses And Worms, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Security

Software downloads 2009-09-11

Scientific Conservation technology fights "energy drift"

Scientific Conservation sits at the intersection of green IT and green technology for more energy-efficient building management. Founded in 2007, the company offers a software platform called SCIwatch for what it has dubbed Automated Continuous Commissioning. In laymen's terms, this means the application will keep tabs on...

Tags: Software, HVAC, Monitoring, Conservation Technology Ltd., Construction, Tools & Techniques, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-09-10

6 dirty tricks from enterprise vendors

GET it in WRITING!If it is NOT in the contract then you made your first mistake.Well said.Contracts & Paper Trails are more precious than gold when something goes Tango-Ultra on you.I dont agree with #5Well I do, but to further clarify, *most* vendors will support at least 1-2 major revisions...

Tags: Content management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise software, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), dirty trick, enterprise vendor, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-09

OpenEMR Server 3.1 (Windows)

The clinical benefits of computerized medical records are clear; however, the costs of current proprietary systems are large. These high cost systems inhibit many small practices from transitioning to computerized medical records. This obstacle can easily be circumvented with OpenEMR. OpenEMR is a free medical practice management, electronic medical records,...

Tags: Medical Billing, Electronic Health Record, Server, Microsoft Windows, Medical Record, EHR Live, OpenEMR Server 3.1, EDI, E-health, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2009-08-25

Gartner financial apps MarketScope

Earlier today I saw Oracle crowing about getting a top slot in Gartner's Marketscope for financial applications. They weren't the only ones. SAP took a similar top slot. But then all the others Gartner looked at: Epicor, Lawson, Microsoft, Exact, Infor, Sage and Unit 4 Agresso scored 'positive.' Odd you...

Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Corp., Financial, On-demand, Gartner Inc., Sage, KashFlow, Managed Hosting, Smb/Sme, Cloud Computing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-08-17

News to know: Social media spam; Sprint; Windows Mobile; Google

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Jennifer Leggio: Snake oil at its slickest: A social media spam story Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Silverlight 3 available...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Social Media, Spam, Microsoft Corp., Sprint Communications, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-07-10

SAP to bounce?

Larry Dignan pinged me to say the financial analysts are showing renewed interest in SAP with several positive comments on the likely outcome to its Q2 results, due for release on July, 29th: That take is a mixed bag in the things are less worse camp. The biggest argument...

Tags: NetSuite Inc., SAP AG, Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Financial Planning, Enterprise Software, Management, Finance, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-09

Can ERP vendors save the world?

Enterprise resource planning software vendors have the tools---if used correctly---to make a huge impact on sustainability efforts and possibly even save us from global warming. Talk about total cost of ownership.  OK, now stop laughing. Vinnie Mirchandani at Deal Architect has a modest proposal for ERP vendors: ...

Tags: ERP Vendor, ERP, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-02

The cure for YouTube's ills: Charge for uploads

The cure for YouTube's ills: Charge for uploadsyea, right.Business and marketing types will destroy everything. They have destroyed our banks, destroyed our automotive industry and now they want to destroy the internet.The whole country needs a new business model that does not include Wall Street where greed rules.RE: The...

Tags: INTERNET, YouTube Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-06-01

The sky is failing; GAO warns GPS satellite program needs funding and leadership

The sky is failing; GAO warns GPS satellite program needs funding and leadershipmake the GPS manufactures pay a license fee/deviceit's like using the roads...RE: The sky is failing; GAO warns GPS satellite program needs funding and leadershipHow about charging a license fee to those who don't pay taxes to maintain...

Tags: Handhelds, Network technology, GPS, GPS satellite program need, satellite, program need, GPS satellite, General Accounting Office, leadership

Discussion threads 2009-05-20

Cutting software maintenance costs 101

Maintenance and support costs are increasingly gobbling up more of your IT budget despite the occasional bone thrown to you from your friendly neighborhood software vendor. The larger question is what can be done about this maintenance inflation.  Luckily Forrester Research has a few answers.  ...

Tags: Software, Software Company, Vendor, Shelfware, Forrester Research Inc., Maintenance Revenue, Tools & Techniques, Software As A Service (SaaS), Strategy, Management, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-12

Rimini Street chief: Where's the maintenance cost 'peace dividend'?

Enterprise software maintenance and support---the cash cow that keeps giving---has becoming a hot topic amid an economic downturn that has customers questioning a never-ending stream of price increases.  Rimini Street is at the forefront of taking advantage of some of this ire. Rimini Street, a third party...

Tags: Maintenance, Software-as-a-service, Oracle Corp., Customer, SAP AG, Dividend, Rimini Street, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Tools & Techniques, Emerging Technologies, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-12

Oracle tweaks extended support fees

Oracle on Monday said that it has waived extended support fees for its a bevy of products, including its E-Business Suite 11, 10, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 8.11, Siebel CRM 7.8 and Oracle database 10g R2.  Extended support covers product and technology releases, updates, fixes and security alerts,...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Java Development Tools, Enterprise Software, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-04

News to know: Windows 7; Apple; Yahoo bonuses; Palm

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Verdict: Windows 7 - Like Vista, just a bit easier to use and less annoying Ed Bott: Database glitch causes Windows 7 download...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Yahoo! Inc., Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-05-01