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Benioff Attends Open World
Well, that was interesting. Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff just completed a speech at Oracle Open World, perhaps the ultimate example of co-opetition. It was apparent to me early on that Marc’s...
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Key Findings for OOW #2
This time a little more serious. Ok? I am a software and CRM guy so that’s the focus of this piece. Much of Oracle Open World (OOW) was table setting. It was all interesting and valuable but it was...
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Key Findings for OOW #3 — The Fusion Edition
Fusion is big, potentially powerful, based on new technology, backward compatible and not available yet. Larry Ellison began taking the wraps off Fusion at his Open World keynote on Wednesday. His...
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Oracle Fusion in (financial) Context
With the introduction of Fusion applications Oracle has joined the cloud community. You might want to argue that the company has been involved in the cloud for many years as one of the key technology...
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Fusion applications decide an argument, sort of
With Oracle’s announcement of Fusion applications, you can make a reasonable case that Salesforce.com has won an important ten-year old argument about the future of the software industry....
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Adobe on a roll (hold the fries)
For the second day in a row Adobe made an important partnering announcement. Yesterday the company said it had teamed with Salesforce.com to produce Adobe Flash Builder for Force.com, which will speed...
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Comparing NetSuite and Salesforce
I was at a user meeting with NetSuite in Boston earlier this week. The company has bought two companies since going public — OpenAir and QuickArrow — both of which support the professional services...
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Sage evolves on-demand services
A long time ago I wrote a white paper about how on-demand technology would change business. The paper covered all of the ideas you’d expect including lowering costs and improving access to on-demand...
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Let’s get our terms straight
Sage’s introduction of SalesLogix for cloud computing has caused me to do a lot of thinking. The operative terms we use in the industry for software functionality delivered across the Internet is SaaS...
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The Subscription Economy
I get a lot of email. It’s not all because of my job or because I publish my work frequently. Some of it is like that, but it seems like my email address is on a lot of lists and I am one of the...
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