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SUN and its Software Business
Blog It is with puzzlement I view the inability of SUN in developing a successful software business. Surely software, with its attractive 100% margin business model, would represent a strategy that could not fail.
[April 15, 2009, 8:03 in Diogenes Club by smycroft]
Business software usage guidlines issued
Talkback Great. They better teach their members about the more finer print within, say, Microsoft license agreements because else their members will have no clue about things like: distinct input, multiplexing, downgrade rights, crossover licensing, OEM...
About: Business software usage guidlines issued
[February 13, 2005, 22:06]
Microsoft outlines business software schedule
Talkback Yet another plan by the Microsoft monopoly to squeeze every available peeny out of businesses who don't have a choice of software providers.
About: Microsoft outlines business software schedule
[June 17, 2004, 16:44]
Flaw found in Symantec business antivirus software
Talkback Norton has been flawed for years, a very bad combination with AOL. I remove virus from customer PC's most of them have Norton Antivirus and Firewalls. Sadley you might be better of with the MS Defender and SP2 Firewall - now that is a worry.
About: Flaw found in Symantec business antivirus software
[May 31, 2006, 12:50]
Corporate UK Facing Compliance Time Bomb
Blog You would have thought any competent IT department would know the risk to their business from pirated software. At least that’s the result of research commissioned by the Software Industry Research Board (SIRB), which was conducted by IDC in 2008...
[November 10, 2008, 11:03 in Social Networking by christian harris]
Patent Office wants debate on software directive
Talkback The UKPO has always claimed (in it's pre-DTI meeting brochure for example), that pure software and business methods are not patentable in Europe and they have also always claimed to be the most vigilant of patent-on-idea-thinly-disguised-as...
About: Patent Office wants debate on software directive
[February 4, 2005, 14:31]
Linus Torvalds speaks out against EU patent law
Talkback If you have a business and you 'pirate' your copy of WindowsXP and the 'Business Software Consortium' find out, they will prosecute you and win. Copyrights are adequate to protect the software you wrote from being used without your consent and...
About: Linus Torvalds speaks out against EU patent law
[November 23, 2004, 21:19]
US firm claims patent win in online rich media
Talkback Well it's more of a "business method" patent than it is a software patent, and it is the granting of patents such as this one, which claim the exclusive rights to so much for so little disclosure (none), that has brought the patent system into...
About: US firm claims patent win in online rich media
[February 23, 2006, 12:45]
Microsoft: Don't sell PCs without operating systems
Talkback As a small business owner in Seattle, I can say that the biggest reason to avoid Microsoft software is that having their software on your computers puts you at risk for being shaken down by the Business Software Alliance or some similar software...
About: Microsoft: Don't sell PCs without operating systems
[April 5, 2006, 19:50]
BMC Software acquires Tideway Systems
Blog John Peters, general manager for Atrium Software Business at BMC, said that it was not BMC's policy to disclose details on its transactions, but did say that a full-scale shake-up of Tideway's infrastructure was unlikely.
[October 20, 2009, 17:19 in News Blog by Carly Newman]
Does 10x faster development dumb down programming?
Blog If you’re in the business of reviewing software application development news, which coincidentally I am, then tenfold programming productivity claims tend to either raise my eyebrows or raise my hackles in equal measure.
[November 25, 2009, 13:09 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Get your filthy hands off my code!
Blog For some years now (well the last half decade at least) various vendors from the Business Intelligence space to the pure-play development behemoths have been talking about bringing in the influence of non-technical staff into the software delivery...
[November 25, 2008, 14:01 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
The Next Big Thing in SaaS and The Cloud: Costs linked to business outcome?
Blog Should Software-as-a-Service vendors make the switch to charging for their offering based on business outcome? The statement Laurent made during his 15 minutes presentation that made me sit up was his assertion that Software-as-a-Service (SaaS...
[November 6, 2009, 11:08 in The Business Web 2.0 by wecando.biz]
Proprietary software: A defence
Talkback Proprietary software WAS an extremely successful business model. As noted at the begiinning of this responce Red Hats profits are up 35% in a business model that does not depend on selling the software, just the support services.
About: Proprietary software: A defence
[December 19, 2003, 8:41]
Open Source is the freedom of Choice, not necessarily the cheaper option.
Blog It's about the experts you hire to install and maintain your business software and information. I was speaking to a Windows Support engineer on the phone last week who uses linux for some aspects of the enterprise needs of the business.
[September 21, 2009, 10:06 in One Pict and Ubuntu by shandydann]
Software patent directive adopted
Talkback Allowing software processes to be patented means only big business will be able to develop software in the future. This is a sad day for democracy, business and the consumer. Software development is an iterative process with new developments being...
About: Software patent directive adopted
[March 7, 2005, 12:30]
Greatest upheaval yet to come - Gartner
Talkback "And to make things more dire for developers, by 2008, powerful data-modelling and code-creation tools, supervised by small, one- to three-person teams of business analysts, will generate three-quarters of business software.
About: Greatest upheaval yet to come - Gartner
[December 13, 2003, 15:55]
SaaS has a healthy future
Talkback SaaS offerings can change and evolve quickly based on business needs - traditional software deployments cannot. However, smart vendors will look to tailor their offerings to meet each company’s individual requirements, thus making them an integral...
About: SaaS industry 'will collapse' in two years
[August 29, 2008, 9:19 by Rikke Helms]
Free software 'not anti-capitalist'
Talkback Free software is anti-capitalist" is only true if you view the entire business world through the rose-colored peepholed glasses of a proprietary software vendor. When viewed under a macro lens rather than micro, it's proprietary software that's...
About: Free software 'not anti-capitalist'
[March 16, 2006, 17:43]
New iapp store
Talkback Seems to be at the heart of business enterprise users, its like all the stuff you ever wanted for pr have on your palm pilot in one easy click install - on the first day they had 25 business iapp including bloomberg and oracle software on the...
About: O2: iPhone 3G to take enterprise by storm
[July 11, 2008, 10:07 by utzy]
