Did someone say Web 2.0? Did someone say Software as a Service? Did someone
say cloud computing, or utter some other already hackneyed buzzword?
Oh, yes, someone did say all those things this week with the celebrity marriage
of Salesforce.com and Google, two of the industry's Webby young superstars.
The two SaaS evangelists finally exchanged vows of sorts this week, announcing
an agreement through which Salesforce.com will sell Google Apps with the
Salesforce.com-hosted CRM (customer relationship management -- but you knew
that) offering.
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Posted by Lee Pender on April 15, 20080 comments
Oh, dear. Rumor -- and, remember, pretty much all of this stuff is rumor --
has it that Yahoo is
looking
to AOL
(ugh) to save it from Microsoft...while Redmond might be looking
to News Corp. (double ugh) to help woo (or just gobble up) Yahoo.
What a mess. And what a pairing that would be -- Microsoft and News Corp. (Rupert
Murdoch's company, famous in the U.S. for Fox News). Man, that little couple
coming together to put down "Internet pioneer" Yahoo would probably
be enough to make some Silicon Valley bloggers' heads explode.
Posted by Lee Pender on April 15, 20080 comments
Windows is dying because of virtualization (and because it's so darn fat)!
Only
virtualization
can save
Windows! Or so say the know-it-alls at Gartner, anyway.
Yeah, it doesn't make a lot of sense to us, either. We're scratching our heads
here, and so
is Doug Barney, editor in chief of RCP's sister publication, Redmond
magazine.
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Posted by Lee Pender on April 15, 20084 comments
OK, confession time: Back in November of 2006,
RCP
the magazine
brought you the story of Microsoft Forefront, Redmond's
big move into the enterprise security market. As a cover piece, the
"Partners
in Security"
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Posted by Lee Pender on April 10, 20080 comments
We told you last November about Microsoft's entry into unified communications
and Redmond's
curious
relationship
with rival Cisco. Well, this week, Jeana Jorgensen, director
of the Unified Communications Group at Microsoft, caught up with RCPU to tell
us how UC partner recruitment is going.
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Posted by Lee Pender on April 10, 20080 comments
In honor of the brands and companies in this entry, we'd like to start puttingWORDS
together and writing the second one in allCAPS.
Last week, mindSHIFT, a provider of hosted and on-site IT services for SMBs,
bought
a company called Collaboration Online, a provider of hosted applications
better known by some of its brand names, such as groupSPARK and AgileWave CRM.
The acquisition was of particular interest to RCPU because Ravi Agarwal, CEO
of Collaboration Online, featured prominently in RCP's April
cover story.
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Posted by Lee Pender on April 10, 20080 comments
Some
of them
are for non-technical folks; others are for more geeky types.
Posted by Lee Pender on April 09, 20080 comments
Right here in the middle of the week, we're turning things over to you, the
reader. That's right; it's Reader Feedback...Wednesday!
We start with Larry's comment on OOXML
becoming an ISO standard (a topic that, incidentally, seems to have produced
a record number of comments on the RCPmag.com
blog site). Larry says:
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Posted by Lee Pender on April 09, 20080 comments
Ultimatums, threats to decrease the offering price, potential proxy fight...these
are the days of our lives with
Microsoft's
bid to buy Yahoo
.
Posted by Lee Pender on April 08, 20080 comments