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About Joshua Greenbaum
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Joshua Greenbaum has over 20 years of experience in the industry as a computer programmer, systems analyst, author, and consultant. In addition to his work from various bases in Silicon Valley, he spent three years in Europe tracking the enterprise software market as an analyst and correspondent for leading industry publications. Josh is an award-winning columnist and is widely quoted in the trade and business press. His opinions on enterprise software have annoyed enough vendors that he now checks under the hood of his PC every morning before he boots up.
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See You in the Cloud
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 --...
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Microsoft, Creative Financing, and the Bank of EAC
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...
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SAP Makes A Dramatic Move: Ex-Oracle Exec John Wookey To Head up SAP’s New On-demand Market Effort
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...
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Maybe CRM for Facebook Does Make Sense :)
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....
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Social to CRM to Enterprise: Not So Fast....
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...
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More optimistic views on the future of enterprise software
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...
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Remember IBM at $10.50 per Share? Oracle as a penny stock? Tales of Hope from the Great High Tech Depression of ‘89
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...
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Oracle's Second-Ever Hardware Product: In the Beginning, There Was The Network Computer
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...
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Léo Apotheker’s Leadership Opportunity: SAP At the Crossroads
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...
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Get A Clue, Google: Your EULA Policies Stink!
It turns out that Google's Chrome, like Google's Apps, started life with the same ridiculous EULA, the one that gives GOOG the right to use any content you send to Chrome (and Apps as well) in any...
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Microsoft Hitting Google Where it Hurts: Making Ad Words Accountable
The Genghis Kahn school of marketing, made famous in the 1980s by Larry Ellison, has as its principle maxim the notion that it’s not enough that one succeeds, one’s opponents must also fail. A...
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Handicapping the Fall Enterprise Software Race: SAP vs. Oracle vs. Microsoft
It’s leapfrog time in enterprise software land, and the next frog to jump will be Oracle, which is hosting industry analysts next week in Redwood Shores and then hosting the entire world at its...
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The End of SaaS? Or Just the End of Hype?
Lawson CEO Harry Debes started -- or rather continued -- a brouhaha that's getting some pixels in the blogosphere, and his position is worth commenting on for both its courage (foolhardy) and its...
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Expensive Oil, Stupid Trade Groups, and Pending Enterprise Software Growth
USA Today had an interesting article today that calls into question a few of the doomsday scenarios that have dominated US policy-makers and those for whom policy has been made over the last...
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Friendly Fire: SAP Flubs the Maintenance Business
You’d think, based on the timing, that Oracle was trying to deliberately make a PR run on what was looking like, and turned out to be, some pretty good news for SAP. The day before SAP’s nice...
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Vista To Win in the Enterprise, The Ugly Way
I came away from this week's Microsoft Worldwide Partner (WPC) conference convinced, finally, that the future of Vista is assured in the enterprise. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't because of...
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Deskless Workers, Useless Services: Microsoft Online Misses the Mark
I spend a lot of time tracking the deskless souls who inhabit the workworld, the factory workers, nurses and others who spend more time on their feet and less time on their butts than the rest of...
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My 15 minutes with Bill Gates, and how the Web was born
Once upon a time, when Bill Gates still flew commercial and I was a budding journalist in need of a haircut, I had a number of opportunities to interview and otherwise interact with Bill Gates. It...
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Salesforce.com, Partners, and Value-Added SaaS
As the resident Salesforce.com basher at ZDNet, it is with some smugness that I am watching the birth of a fellow naysayer on the future of Salesforce.com's efforts to break forth from its CRM...
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Google To Get A Lesson in Security, From the Pros
Having just read that Google is taking up residence at Moffett Field, a storied air base in Mountain View that is home to NASA's Ames Research Center, among others, I realized there's a great...
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