Why I work in enterprise technology
This article in the weekend’s New York Times sums up perfectly why I work in enterprise technology and not consumer web. If you haven’t read it, the article interviews a few VC’s who are increasingly...
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5 things you didn't know about me
Alright Jason, I’ll take your tag. 5 things about me:I am an extremely bad but persistent surferFavorite local spot is Bolinas, a sleepy surf town for ageing bay area hippies and out of shape...
View ArticleA few 2007 predictions
As we’re in prediction season, I'll indulge in a few of my own:The last of the SOA middleware vendors get merged, acquired or shut downIn 2005 and 2006 we’ve seen Fuego, Infravio, Blue Titan, Actional,...
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One more 2007 prediction on Web 2.0
I loved this Wall Street Journal article that Sadagopan found. It’s a debate between Todd Dagres (formerly of Battery Ventures, now at Spark Capital) and David Hornik (at August Capital) on whether or...
View ArticleWhat's the big deal about Enterprise 2.0?
Entire blogs are dedicated to covering the topic, and we can’t forget the exceptionally tortured semantic debate over what would be allowed to live under the Enterprise 2.0 tent.There are manyopinions...
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Google in the enterprise part deux
I found this article that Google is planning on charging enterprises for their newly-acquired/built webapps like Google Docs.I thought this sort-of announcement was pretty poor timing as many are...
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Germany doesnt just make software for great big companies...
Germany makes great big bunnies too:
View ArticleOracle hearts Tangosol
In other news, Oracle recently acquired Tangosol, a Somerville, MA based middleware software startup. Tangosol is an impressive company with an impressive technology. At its core, Tangosol does data...
View ArticleEnd of an era
SAP hired me out of graduate school and for reasons unimportant to this story, I had to go through a rather extensive set of interviews to get the job. The final stop on the tour was a 45 minute...
View ArticleVinnie joins SAP?
Thomas' April Fools post lasted about 3 hours before Vinnie woke up and negated it. It's a pity, I thought it was quite plausible. We all know negotiating discounts out of vendors no longer presents a...
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No day at the beach for web services standards
Innoq was kind enough to draw up this nifty map of today’s extant Web Services standards.This of course was throwing a proverbial softball to WS-* standards cynics like our friends over at...
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How can you be sure a company is dead?
Much digital ink has been spilled on Paul Grahm’s “Microsoft is dead” article. Now that the dust has settled, I wanted to throw one more point of view on the pile.Paul gets some things right. Microsoft...
View ArticleVacation reading roundup
More vacation (honeymoon!) reading. Before I headed off to the beach I picked up a number of books. Here’s the quick blow by blow:Extreme Programming Refactored is the most extensive treatise against...
View ArticleEnterprise software acquisitions
The pace of acquisitions has been fast in furious in enterprise software recently. I thought I’d do a quick roundup.Workbrain acquired by Infor and Kronos taken private by Hellman & Friedman. The...
View ArticleWhat are you willing to pay for availability?
Dan Farber writes up an interesting piece on Salesforce.com's rather extended scheduled downtime. In the process, Dan quotes a fellow Enterprise Irregular Charlie Wood who says:Does anyone think PayPal...
View ArticleStartup fad diets
Just got through reading this article on Appirio in Forbes online. Essentially Forbes holds Appirio up as the new paragon of startup thrift. The founder’s taken such overhead reducing steps as:1. No...
View ArticleSoftware sales & marketing costs
Periodically I’ll find a post in the blogosphere lamenting the amount of money that enterprise software vendors pour into sales & marketing. In most companies, sales & marketing expenses are...
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Dissecting the SaaS business model
Three SaaS companies, Netsuite, Successfactors and Constant Contact are preparing for IPO. This is great news as I get to tick off a “win” on one of my 6 predictions for 2007.Jason Wood did a stellar...
View ArticleSoftware Product Marketing 2.0?
One pet peeve I have with the enterprise software industry is the marketing. I find most software product marketing to fluctuate between the puerile to the abstruse.The abstruse bit actually gets me...
View ArticleWhere is it all headed? What does it all mean?
I’ve let the blog go a bit cold! It’s been a very busy past few months and feeding the beast has been tricky despite a busy tech news season.A few weeks ago, Oracle announced a semi-hostile takeover...
View ArticleA new wrinkle on SaaS
Salesforce announced an interesting new capability to facilitate the sharing of specific types of information between different SFDC subscribers. An early example would include something like sales...
View ArticleThe enterprise software industry in 2007
Happy New Year to everyone!I wanted to jump into 2008 predictions but only seems fair to review my track record from 2007. 2007 predictions included:The last of the SOA middleware vendors get merged,...
View ArticleDetermining success in software product development
My blogging has slowed to a crawl in the past few months. This is in large part because my group (SAP Governance, Risk and Compliance) has been on the verge of releasing two new versions of its...
View ArticleHandicapping PaaS
I was thinking of cooking up a post on platforms in the cloud when Abhijit Dubey, Junaid Mohiuddin and Aadarsh Baijal at McKinsey & Company (and several pundits by now) beat me to it.The report...
View ArticleEnterprise software is not like Facebook for a reason
Salesforce’s Marc Benioff was his usual provocateur self with his post on Techcrunch “The Facebook Imperative” where he asserted that “Why isn’t all enterprise software like Facebook?” is the important...
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