Open Impact
Don’t get me wrong. I like the old model for making money on software.
A couple of clever people have a bright idea and cobble together a solution on
spare time and credit card debit, releasing their solution to the world and
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Doom discussion
I opened a bit of a hornet’s nest with an article titled "Is
Enterprise Software Doomed?" that appeared on the Sandhill newsletter.
Several kind…
Executive blogging = boring?
PR flacks have discovered blogging, and the world is a much sadder place therefore. And nowhere is this dementia more apparent than with executive blogging from high tech firms.
Now, lest you think I am too …
Open Source Stealing Market Share
Validation is a wonderful thing.
In our recent
Silicon Strategies Marketing white paper titled "Is IT Software Doomed&…
Continue reading →Is IT Software Doomed?
Interesting question. The IT software market has been fundamentally reshaped thanks to the overlapping forces of the Internet and Open Source. We are witnessing a divide between enterprise and mid-market focused vendors, and a few vendors managing t…
Continue reading →Woe be SCO!
A popular (though inaccurate) definition of the word insanity is "Doing the same thing over, and over again, and expecting different results."
So what are we to conclude about SCO chief Darl McBride when after …
Seismic Market Shifts
California is a fast moving place. When an earthquake strikes, you can
move quite a distance while standing on the same piece of ground.
The same applies to technology markets. Once in a while, there is a
seismic shift that f…