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Why Competition Is So Bitter in SaaS:  Oligopolies and Dominant Strategy Equilibriums

Why Competition Is So Bitter in SaaS: Oligopolies and Dominant Strategy Equilibriums

By Jason M. Lemkin on October 2, 2012

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 […]

Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged Apple, bill gates, google, larry ellison, netsuite, oligopoly, Oracle, Sergey Brin, software as a service, steve jobs

Microsoft, Apple And The Competition In The Post PC Era

Microsoft, Apple And The Competition In The Post PC Era

By Krishnan Subramanian on July 4, 2012

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, General | Tagged apple update, bill gates, charlie rose, insights, ipad, microsoft, microsoft surface, mobile, post-pc, surface, tablets

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Microsoft, the Walking Dead

By Zoli Erdos on October 7, 2010

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Strategy | Tagged bill gates, microsoft | 2 Responses

My New Favorite Old Blog…

My New Favorite Old Blog…

By Zoli Erdos on March 10, 2010

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 […]

Posted in General | Tagged Apple, bill gates, blogging, jonathan schwartz, microsoft, patents, sun

Inconvenient Outages…

Inconvenient Outages…

By Zoli Erdos on October 14, 2009

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. […]

Posted in Just for fun | Tagged bill gates, microsoft, sap, sapteched09, windows

Arrington Spit-Attack – He Joins Elite Club

Arrington Spit-Attack – He Joins Elite Club

By Zoli Erdos on January 28, 2009

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 […]

Posted in General | Tagged bill gates, egg-throwing, gates creampie, microsoft, mike arrington, prank, protest, spit-attack, Steve Ballmer, techcrunch | 4 Responses

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