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Wall Street: Too much sway over the tech sector?

Every technology company has three main constituencies: Employees, customers and shareholders. Does that last category overwhelm the first two? Should it? These questions are worth asking--at least when it comes to putting technology companies in context. Vinnie Mirchandani and I had this back and forth about Wall...

Tags: Shareholder, Technology Company, Wall, Vinnie, Construction, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-09

Why should investors dictate at BEA?

Last week, Larry Dignan said this of BEA: BEA is playing a dangerous game–especially if you believe no other company wants it at that price. BEA may be a leading middleware company, but the writing is on the wall: Girth wins in enterprise software. Oracle and BEA makes...

Tags: BEA Systems Inc., M&A, Investor, Vinnie, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Accounting, Corporate Governance, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-10-31

Oracle's anonymous supporters

Vinnie Mirchandani's note that Oracle Fusion will be delayed drew anonymous responses from Oracle IP addresses. Example: No major enhancements were planned for the acquired products? This is not true, Why you are commenting on something that you don't have all the facts to comment on? This is not...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Vinnie, Sales Strategy, Blogging, Sales Force Management, Sales, Internet, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-10-12

Cap Gemini's GAPEing void play: hit or miss?

Following the announcement of the Google and Cap Gemini tie up, Mike Krigsman, Vinnie Mirchandani, Phil Wainewright and I peppered Steve Jones Cap Gemini's head of SOA, and Michael Donner, VP, Global Head, Demand Generation – Outsourcing Services with questions about the deal. While each...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Google Gmail, Capgemini, Consulting, Spreadsheet, Vinnie Mirchandani, Cap, Co-existence Argument, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-09-11

Show me the Web 2.0 money

In all the hoopla around Web 2.0/Enterprise 2.0 applications and services I'm left with an uncomfortable question. Where's the money for the application creator? mySQL has only just broken even after years of pioneering open source with only 1:1,000 downloads leading to any revenue for mySQL. Zoho Office on Facebook is getting...

Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-08-14

A MAGIC framework for innovation

Following up on my post about Jerry Bowles' take on social media and adapting an architecture of participation also know as collaboration in the enterprise, Vinnie Mirchandani wrote a post titled, CIO View of Tech Innovation: The MAGIC Framework. Vinnie writes that CIOs want the building blocks to further their...

Tags: Magic, innovation, Vinnie

Blog posts 2006-08-23

Bad things can happen if you don't listen to Vinnie

Bad things can happen if you don't listen to VinnieTotally off topic...The little story about Vinnie brought mirth and joy into my life. I'm just mystified that you could grow up in or near White Plains and not know "the deal".J.JaToday's Vinniedont need to get into no stinkin car -...

Tags: Blogging, Vinnie, White Plains

Discussion threads 2006-01-04

Bad things can happen if you don't listen to Vinnie

Well, it's not that bad things can happen. It's just that good things might not happen. In his Scott Adams moment about the six elements of an attactive blog, Vinnie "the deal architect" Mirchandani writes "I thought it would be fun to outline 6 elements on what the average...

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Blog posts 2006-01-04

Additional Resources

SAP to shut down TomorrowNow; Oracle gets its sacrifice

SAP's purchase of TomorrowNow in 2005 sounded like a great idea: Undercut Oracle on support and squeeze your biggest rival. And then came Oracle's lawsuit. SAP said Monday that it will wind down the operations of TomorrowNow, which provided third party support for Oracle applications. In a...

Tags: Oracle Corp., SAP AG, TomorrowNow, Pricing, Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-21

SAP 'Mittelstand' customers upset at new maintenance charges

Following on from yesterday's announcement of a hike in SAP maintenance charges, the German title Computerwoche implies that the powerful 'Mittelstand' group in the German SAP user group are far from happy. Under the title: "Higher maintenance costs upset SAP customers ," Computerwoche interviewed Gunther Rheinhart, executive member of  the...

Tags: Customer, SAP AG, Mittelstand, Gunther Rheinhart, Auto-renew, Software As A Service (SaaS), Workforce Management, Outsourcing, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-17

Hammering at cost with open source

Irregular Bob Warfield riffs on Salesforce.com's decision to ditch Sun/Solaris in favor of Dell/Linux. In doing so, Bob makes the point that: ...for a SaaS company, the cost of service delivery is an absolutely critical factor.  Once you have software that runs well and scales horizontally on cheap commodity...

Tags: Software, Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Oracle Corp., Open Source, Vinnie Mirchandani, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Sales Force Management, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-15

European telcos squeal: should we care?

One of the ongoing discussions among the Irregulars centers around telecommunications costs. Many of us travel internationally and bemoan the astronomical sic charges we're forced to pay by telecoms operators. Earlier today, I saw a statement from the GSMA, a global trade group  for the industry arguing...

Tags: Mobile, Industry, Telephony, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telecom & Utilities, Regulations, Telecommunications, Networking, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Government, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-15

First MISO, then GISMO, next GOAT?

First MISO, then GISMO, next GOAT?vinnie mirchandaniDennis,in terms of enterprise penetration and utility Oracle outstrips the other 3 but not on innovation or value for money..and that is even after burdening Apple with ATT's TCO. Oracle is spray painting slim slivers of innovation on products which are 10-30 years old...

Tags: Leadership, first MISO, Gismo, MISO

Discussion threads 2008-07-14

Ticking bombs in enterprise land

I believe the enterprise software industry is heading for major problems. It started when I read Francine McKenna  where she talks about what she sees as a doomsday scenario for at least one of the Big Four audit businesses. Francine's focus is on questioning the effectiveness of current methods for...

Tags: Software, Audit, Francine, Tools & Techniques, Financial Accounting, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-07

Time to blow up the software industry

Vinnie Mirchandani's post, Call to Steve Jobs: Please reshape the enterprise software market was bound to get a reaction out of my Irregular chums. 70 reactions to be precise as at the time of writing this post. That's the number of posts to our Google Group on the topic with...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Financial, Software Company, SAP AG, Vinnie Mirchandani, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Management, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-06-24

Carl and Yahoo's dueling banjo routine gets old

See Carl Icahn blast Jerry Yang and Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock over a compensation plan to fend off a Microsoft bid. See Roy tell Carl he's manipulating facts and using allegations from a complaint that has no merit. See Larry's eyes glaze over. Anyone else sick of...

Tags: Jerry Yang, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-05

Size matters: Verizon Wireless buys Alltel; Will claim most subscribers

Verizon Wireless said Thursday that it will buy Alltel to beef up its network for about $28.1 billion. The deal surfaced on Wednesday via various press reports and Verizon Wireless just made it official statement. What's this deal about? Subscriber envy. Verizon Wireless wasn't...

Tags: Alltel Corp., Verizon Wireless, Mergers & Acquisitions, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-05

Will Enterprise 2.0 be a wash?

Next week sees the start of Enterprise 2.0 in Boston. You'd think that given the line up of rock star speakers that it would be a magnet for eager buyers looking to find out what's likely to be new, fresh and shiny in the wonderful world of all things social....

Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-06-05

The changing analyst landscape

The recent Institute of Industry Analyst Relations poll results produced some startling results. While the power hitters of Gartner, IDC and Forrester were well represented, it was the boutique groups that caught my attention. Redmonk, MWD and Freeform Dynamics all performed well across multiple categories, despite being minnows in the...

Tags: Analyst, Ray, Blogging, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Internet, Management, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-06-04

Is SAP's weakness its real strength?

Conversations with Doug Merritt, a member of SAP's executive council and the person driving Business Objects as a platform for intelligence are always entertaining. Merritt represents the unconventional, disruptive element within SAP that was in evidence during Shai Agassi's tenure. For me, Merritt charaterizes the public face of fracture I...

Tags: SAP AG, Merritt, Phil, Corporate Governance, Strategy, Leadership, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Human Resources, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-05-22