Enterprise software
The enterprise software market features massive players like SAP and Oracle and customers that are beginning to question their license fees. Can enterprise software companies count on ever-increasing maintenance revenue streams. The enterprise software field is massive and includes Microsoft, IBM, BMC Software, CA and dozens of other players both large and small.
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We don't have any problem understanding that someone has a broken limb when we see them with their arm in plaster and a sling, but it takes us a while to understand that someone has mental...
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Automation, policy-driven processes and best practices are offering more opportunities for optimizing virtualization so that server, storage, and network virtualization can move from points of...
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I see the self-service portal as a critical differentiator, and could also lead to what we think of the "app stores" model for consumer and entertainment uses moving to the enterprise apps space.
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I can't think of any plausible use case where such crowdsourcing will have anything other than a marginal impact. There will always be that spark of invention that no one's heard about -- but does...
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Multi-tenancy, single tenancy...the technical debate rages. But are we concentrating too much on the TCO argument and not seeing clearly into the future?
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