http://www.zdnet.com/blog/greenbaum/rss en-us This post marks the end of my relationship with ZDNet — though not the end of my blogging career by a long shot. I’ll still be blogging — can’t seem to give it up now that it’s in my blood — but over on my own Wordpress site, where the requirements for making this blog [...]

]]> Microsoft’s announcement that it would offer 0% financing to new customers of its Dynamics product line is a welcome offering at a time when the credit crisis requires out-of-the-box solutions to the fact that a bunch of ungrateful banks are unwilling to loan the taxpayer those megabucks we lent them as part of the recent [...]

]]> It’s hard to know which was more significant, the announcement that SAP is going to tackle on demand at the top of its market, or the name of the person – former Oracle apps exec John Wookey – who was picked to lead the effort. Off the top of my head, I’d say it’s a [...]

]]> My friend and colleague Jim Shepherd of AMR set me straight this morning about what Salesforce.com is doing with Facebook, and I’m embarrassed to admit I didn’t get it right the first time. According to Jim, when it comes to SFDC and Facebook, CRM actually stands for Child Relationship Management. This realization comes as a [...]

]]> Darn, I missed it: Salesforce.com is opening itself up to Facebook. Or is it the other way around? I had received a belated invite to attend SFDC’s Dreamforce from Marc Benioff, but too much real work prevented me from attending. So I had to read the press releases and my fellow bloggers’ reports on the [...]

]]> With SAP’s decision to forgo its 2009 guidance a paradoxical beacon of truth in a falling market, I have decided to return from vacation a day early and get busy trying to gauge the market for enterprise software in the coming year. It’s not an easy task, needless to day, or SAP wouldn’t have risked [...]

]]> Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak …..October.
Paraphrasing Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven seems somehow appropriate to this moment, when it seems that everything we’ve all worked and dreamed about is going up in smoke. And yet, having seen a version of this movie more than once, I’d like to offer a little [...]

]]> Larry Ellison can be forgiven for sometimes making a mistake, particularly when it comes to marketing new, or not so new, concepts. His statement yesterday that Oracle was unveiling its “first-ever” hardware product is factually challenged by the 1996 launch of the Network Computer, Oracle’s real “first-ever” hardware product. The NC, as it was called, [...]

]]> If I had to distill a vast and complex product strategy into a single, admittedly simplistic description, Oracle of late would have been known as a company that innovates through acquisition: This has been largely true since Oracle’s acquisition binge started five years ago. And until now innovation through acquisition has been one of the [...]

]]> Léo Apotheker is slated to take over the helm of SAP this January, and while many have worked with him, broken bread with him, and generally admired his business acumen and very successful career, there’s one problem with his ascension to the top executive position in the enterprise software market: No one knows what [...]

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