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- Halloween XII: What's really behind those Microsoft licenses?
- Last night I stayed up late to watch a scary movie called The Grudge. It's a remake of a Japanese film, set in Japan, with English actors including Sarah Michelle Geller. It's not gory but it sure gave me the creeps. Tonight after all the trick-or-treating is done and the...
- Tags: License, Microsoft Corp., Ms-RL, Nelson, Corporate Governance, Open Source, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2007-10-31
- NetSuite CEO on installing new releases, SAP and IPOs
- Salesforce.com typically rolls out a new version of its software all at once. On Friday night Salesforce.com had a planned outage to roll out its "Spring 07 pre-release work." ...
- Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Software as a Service (SaaS), Enterprise software, IPO, NetSuite Inc., Nelson, SAP AG, ERP, software
- Blog posts 2007-03-12
- IPO candidate NetSuite fires a shot at SAP
- NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson has joined his former Oracle colleague and on demand software adherent, salesforce.com Marc Benioff, in predicting the failure of SAP to penetrate the SMB market. In his note to company staff see below, Nelson boasts, "If they are lucky, it will take SAP at least...
- Tags: General, IT Management, SaaS, SAP, NetSuite Inc., SAP AG
- Blog posts 2007-01-26
- NetSuite launches SuiteFlex to build out verticals
- It’s been interesting to watch NetSuite and salesforce.com grow up over the last few years. The chief executives at the two companies, Zach Nelson and Marc Benioff, share a common heritage of cutting their teeth at Oracle, but have taken different approaches to spreading the SaaS, multitenancy gospel. Salesforce.com...
- Tags: NetSuite Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-10-25
- Salesforce.com's Apex: The morning tally
- Now that salesforce.com’s Apex programming language and platform has come out from behind the curtain, and the critiques are coming in. Prior to the open keynote at Dreamforce conference Moscone West in San Francisco this morning, I talked to Hummer Winblad VC Mark Gorenberg, who hailed Apex as the most...
- Tags: NetSuite Inc., Salesforce.com Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-10-09
- NetSuite goes vertical
- NetSuite is going vertical, with a software industry-specific edition. I caught up with NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson at PC Forum who described the software vertical as a "single system from lead to renewal." More and more the software-as-a-service world is looking somewhat similar to the old client/server world,--suites, verticals, APIs,...
- Tags: NetSuite Inc., Salesforce.com Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-03-20
- Alternate Senate bill eases up on Nomadic VoIP
- I don't have any quarrel with the good intentions of FCC edicts that E-911 access over nomadic VoIP be required, and quickly at that. This is more of a well-intentioned public spirited mandate there are such things than another big-government bureaucratic edict, but still, I have problems with it.Nomadic E911...
- Tags: VoIP, E911
- Blog posts 2005-10-27
- Recipe for failure: ignore societal trends, says Gartner
- Gartner Symposium/ITxpo--San Francisco, CA. With no keynotes on the agenda and Gartner's point about conquering complexity firmly harkened, the final afternoon of the semiannual event saw thinning crowds and a roster of seemingly stodgy sessions. One stood out, however; Knowing Now What You Knew Then: Societal Changes, Their implications and...
- Tags: Nelson, Gartner Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-05-19
- Nelson exiting OSI presidency with non-proliferation swan song?
- Nelson exiting OSI presidency with non-proliferation swan song?Oil and Water>>Because of the way OSDL receives a significant>>amount of its funding from the vendor >>community, some believe that the mixing of >>those corporate interests with licensing >>oversight is like mixing oil and water.And appointing Tiemann to this position *isn't* like mixing...
- Tags: swan song, Nelson, OSI
- Discussion threads 2005-03-03
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- Yahoo nears Google search deal; Icahn's plan goes kaput
- Yahoo nears Google search deal; Icahn's plan goes kaputWhat happens if...Icahn's slate wins this is still a serious possibility and MS still isn't interested in buying, or would only be willing at a greatly reduced price? I would think that Icahn would have no choice but to run Yahoo...
- Tags: Financial accounting, Investment, Yang, Google Search, Yahoo! Inc., Icahn, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-12
- NetSuite cuddles up with OpenAir buy
- NetSuite made its first ever acquisition today, buying Boston-based professional services automation vendor OpenAir, which I once described as "one of the most consistent performers of the on-demand applications sector." I had a joint call this morning with OpenAir CEO Morris Panner and NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson, both of whom...
- Tags: NetSuite Inc., OpenAir Inc., On-demand Financial, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- Coach's 'Ubuntu' mantra helps lead Boston Celtics to NBA Finals
- Doc Rivers' "Ubuntu" mantra helped lead the Boston Celtics to its first NBA Eastern Conference championship in 20 years. So said one ESPN commentator, citing the Beantown coach's use of the African term as a way to drive the team's "collective success." The sportscaster said it following the Celts win...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Team, Mantra, NBA, Team Management, Linux, Open Source, Management, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- SAP's SaaS pull-out will help rivals in Europe
- The news that SAP has pushed back the roll-out of Business ByDesign by twelve to eighteen months should be music to the ears of its SaaS competitors, especially on SAP's home turf in Europe. By announcing its own SaaS product for the midmarket late last year, SAP put its stamp...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, On-demand, NetSuite Inc., SAP AG, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- NetSuite turns into battlground among analysts; High hopes for OneWorld
- On the surface NetSuite's first quarter was pretty good. The company beat its earnings targets by a penny a share and revenue was better than expected. However, the on-demand ERP software provider's deferred revenue fell short of what analysts expected. As Credit Suisse analyst Philip Winslow, who...
- Tags: Revenue, Analyst, NetSuite Inc., Zach Nelson, OneWorld, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- Is Stiglitz the official economist of open source?
- Is Stiglitz the official economist of open source?Counter nominationThat's all well and good, but Yochai Benkler (http://www.benkler.org) has actually been doing serious research and publication on [i]software libre[/i]Economists hate each other!It is a joke - no two econmists will ever have the same opinion. It was interesting to read your...
- Tags: open source, Stiglitz
- Discussion threads 2008-04-25
- NetSuite rolls out OneWorld suite; Eyes ERP in the cloud
- NetSuite on Thursday officially launched OneWorld, a cloud computing ERP, CRM and e-commerce suite designed for small and midmarket companies and divisions within large corporations. The SaaS provider says OneWorld is for multinational companies looking to connect their operations across the globe. According to NetSuite the biggest...
- Tags: NetSuite Inc., Zach Nelson, ERP, OneWorld, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- A change that's headed right for Green Tech Industrial Park
- We live in an era of change, you and I. Some unprecedented. Never before has the world shared a communications technooogy as flexible and open-ended as the Internet. In the days of newsprint or even broadcast, the concept of unlimited space or storage was inconceivable. I...
- Tags: Food, Green Technology, Energy, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Customization: curse or blessing?
- At the high end of the platform-as-a-service spectrum, there's a cluster of vendors that offer fully templated but still highly customizable business applications, targeting small to mid-size businesses and departmental managers in larger organizations. Interestingly, in a poll of ZDNet readers I ran earlier in the month asking where you'd...
- Tags: Application, Curse, Platform, NetSuite Inc., Zach Nelson, Customization, LongJump PaaS, Mike McGinn, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- Two more Microsoft execs fly the coop
- A couple more execs from Microsoft's list of who's who at the company have moved to allegedly greener pastures. Joanne Bradford, corporate vice president and chief media officer of MSN, is leaving Microsoft to join Internet-based ad agency Spot Runner Inc, as initially reported by Todd Bishop...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Joanne Bradford, Majidimehr, Hd Dvd, Advertising & Promotion, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- RiffTrax DVD Player (exe)
- RiffTrax DVD Player is a free DVD Player for Riff Files, Pop in a DVD, load up a RiffTrax in the RiffTrax Player and you're off and running. Feature-length commentaries by Mike Nelson (plus other stars of MST3K and guest celebrities) and listen to your favorite Riff Files.
- Tags: LegendFilms, RiffTrax DVD Player, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Media Players, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- Software downloads 2008-02-25
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