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Why Microsoft’s Azure Makes More Sense than Apex
I am taking a moment off from hating the weather gods and performing karma-cleansing rituals to promote good baseball chakras for the Phillies to chime in on Microsoft’s new announcement of Azure. With Azure, Microsoft officially throws its hat into the Cloud computing ring, or at least some version of whatever the cloud means. If … Continue reading »
Microsoft and JQuery: A Nod To Open Source’s Mainstream Acceptance
So in the course of filtering through my Google Alerts, I came across what appeared to be a significant announcement by Microsoft to ship JQuery with its Visual Studio developer tool suite. As part of the deal, Microsoft said it would contribute tests, bug fixes, and patches to the JQuery open source project and that … Continue reading »
Shameless Self-Promotion Dept: Sugar Wireless
I have had my head in the Sugar Wireless 2.0 upgrades for the past week or so, doing some demos and other work around the enhanced capabilities. So, when I saw this primer for Mobile CRM at My Customer.com I was glad to see that people are getting it more and more when it comes … Continue reading »
Hey, Maybe There’s Something to this Subscription Thing After All…
While Salesforce.com and other companies (SugarCRM included) were busy growing at triple digit growth rates via a subscription model, a lot of established vendors kept their distance. And even when companies got into a subscription model, it was closely tied to their SaaS offerings. Some people, sad to say, still feel SaaS and subscription revenue … Continue reading »
European Union: Use More Open Source
Yesterday, the EU called for more governments to favor open source over proprietary technology. European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes, the EU’s top antitrust official, had this to say: “No citizen or company should be forced or encouraged to choose a closed technology over an open one, through a government having made that choice first.” To … Continue reading »
WSJ: Microsoft Should Open Up Windows
In yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, columnist Lee Gomes raised some interesting points about Microsoft, the most applicable for this blog being Redmond opening up Microsoft Windows. Of his comments, I particularly liked the following: Open source software such as Linux is traditionally seen as the opposite of proprietary software from the likes of Microsoft and … Continue reading »
Microsoft Purchasing Facebook: Another Yahoo! or Recognition of Web 2.0?
So it seems Microsoft is considering a purchase of Facebook. Coming off its recently-abandoned Yahoo purchase, I’m skeptical if such an acquisition would give Microsoft the sufficient boost to its online efforts to make the deal worthwhile. But one reason why I find the merger intriguing is because the purchase would be more than just … Continue reading »
Microsoft and Yahoo!: Close to Signing a Deal or Getting Ugly?
Well, it seems Microsoft is not going to walk away from Yahoo anytime soon, according to numerous articles. To sweeten the deal, Microsoft is evidentially raised its bid to $33 a share, a stout increase from the $29.84 the company was bidding a month ago. Yahoo stockholders are looking for upwards of $37 a share. … Continue reading »
SugarCRM in the Hunt With Salesforce, Microsoft
Joshua Greenbaum wrote an interesting blog yesterday underscoring the brewing battle between Salesforce.com and Microsoft, which recently announced general availability of its on-demand CRM application to its North American subscribers. Greenbaum highlighted a number of interesting paying points for Dynamics CRM Online, including being able to match or beat Salesforce.com in features/functionality, beat it in … Continue reading »
