Why Competition Is So Bitter in SaaS: Oligopolies and Dominant Strategy Equilibriums
Perhaps the oddest thing about the Apple-Google “go thermonuclear” strategy to SaaS guys is that it is so odd at all. Competition-to-the-almost-death seems the norm in SaaS. Just look at Larry Ellison or Marc Benioff. You can see the blood lust in their eyes, in every speech, in a way you never really saw/see in [...]
Microsoft, Apple And The Competition In The Post PC Era
After Microsoft announced their beautiful Surface tablet and positioned it as a tablet that bridges the gap with the PC, there was some discussions on whether we are heading into the post-PC world dominated by tablets or we are going to see a new form of device that is neither tablet nor PC. Some even [...]
Microsoft, the Walking Dead
This post @ Computerworld about Microsoft’s coming heart-attack moment prompted me to resuscitate an old post from my personal blog. We’ve long forgotten all the pain inflicting on us by Vista (really? can we ever forget?), but the Bill Gates letter revealed below is very telling – about the future of Microsoft. Over a year ago [...]
My New Favorite Old Blog…
Image by TechShowNetwork via Flickr My new favorite old blog is former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, blog. It’s at the old URL, but has a new title: What I Couldn’t Say… The “About” section says: I think I’ve said pretty much everything I could say as CEO of Sun Microsystems. The more interesting stuff was [...]
Inconvenient Outages…
Zia Yusuf, SAP’s EVP, Global Ecosystem & Partner Group tweets from SAP Teched: RT @SAPEcoHub:New SAP EcoHub Blog: SAP Community Bio: Your Connection Between SCN and LinkedIn: Well, it .. SAP Network Blog: SAP Community Bio: Your Connection Between SCN and LinkedIn Great, let’s check it out: The SAP Community Network is currently down. [...]
Arrington Spit-Attack – He Joins Elite Club
Image by jdlasica via Flickr Disturbing news this morning: TechCrunch Founder Mike Arrington was about to leave the DLD Conference (hey, Eran, where’s your review?) when a stranger approached him, deliberately spat in his face and disappeared in the crowd. This is as lowly as it gets. It’s also very cowardly. TechCrunch covers a lot [...]
