Real Profitability Part III: Indian players
Part III and second-to-last of this series, at least this one will be the last one with lists of figures In the first I gave you the Big Three (Google, Microsoft and Apple) and Four (Oracle, SAP, IBM and HP) and there was a big difference between them. Where the Big Three make an operating [...]
Real Profitability Part II: classical System Integrators
In my previous post I gave away financial stats on The Big Three and The Big Four, showing their revenue, profit and R&D – for the company as a whole but also calculated relatively for each employee. As Wim Rampen marvelously noted, the real drooling stats would be in measuring all that by customer, rather [...]
Real Profitability Part I: The Big Three and Four
After last post about the wondrous differences between absolute statistics and relative statistics, I decided to do a post and show you what I carry in my back-pocket before attending an event where The Big Three (GOOG, MSFT and AAPL) and The Big Four (ORCL, SAP, IBM, HPQ) announce last year’s figures and achievements. It [...]
Enterprise microblogging should be pay-per-use
An article by Dennis Howlett about Socialtext and Yammer yesterday caught my attention. In essence SocialText announces that they’ll sell their product at 80% of Yammer’s price (being very brief here) but I think they’re both wrong. Social has its own Pareto rule: 90-9-1 versus the old-fashioned 80-20. It means that 1% of people creates [...]
Skytap Secures $10 Million Series C Funding
Image via CrunchBase Skytap (see previous CloudAve coverage), seattle based cloud automation provider, today announced that they have secured a Series C round of $10 Million. This marks a bright start to IaaS market in 2011 which I expect to grow strongly this year. This round is led by OpenView Venture Partners with participation from [...]
