AppExchange critique strikes a chord
Salesforce.com and its partners may not like what I said about AppExchange, but others do. Here's what NetSuite's Zach Nelson wrote me yesterday.
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Yes, server=service. Now walk the talk.
Microsoft's services are weak, under-invested offerings that have to somehow bridge the enormous gap to its installed base of over-engineered servers.
AppExchange is so 1998
Salesforce.com's AppExchange is neither new nor revolutionary, while the debut of AppForce is no more than a rebranding exercise.
Oracle, the 800lb gorilla of on demand
Siebel CRM OnDemand combined with Oracle On Demand looks set to be a powerful force in the on demand sector.
The long tail of applications
Salesforce.com will launch a new on-demand applications marketplace called AppExchange on Monday ... "an eBay for enterprise applications"
Never mind the software, measure the results
SAP's worst nightmare is an outsourcer that delivers all the benefits of business automation without any of the headaches of software ownership.
Microsoft Dynamics too laggardly by half
With Dynamics not due until 2008, Microsoft's new business applications architecture will reach the market too late to fend off on-demand rivals.
Service-enabling enterprise RSS
Service providers are to use Reactivity's new appliance to offer secure publishing and consumption of RSS feeds to the enterprise market.
Workflow on demand
One sign that the on-demand applications sector is thriving is when companies start to prosper on the back of it. One such company is Nsite, which last week announced a new $4 million slug of funding from its existing investors.
Outwitted by its own ecosystem
iRadeon offers hosted CRM based on the SugarCRM code for nine users at the same price SugarCRM charges for a single user.
Ecosystems versus centralized development
Free agents acting in unconstrained competition will always outwit centralized hierarchies.
When is the tipping point for hosted CRM?
Is there a 'tipping point' when enterprises stop buying conventional licensed CRM in favor of hosted? I asked Siebel's Keith Raffel.
What big enterprises want from on-demand vendors
Large enterprises are just as interested in on-demand applications as smaller companies, but providers have to package them to suit their requirements.
Sun's flawed utility vision
Now that Sun has booted up its grid offering, it seems like a good moment to explode one or two myths about utility computing.
Why Microsoft can't best Google
Microsoft's focus on desktop capability is the crux of why it can't possibly succeed against Google -- it's focusing on yesterday's market.