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The End of Legacy

The End of Legacy

By Dave Michels on November 2, 2012

The first time I heard “Legacy Systems” was in the early 90s when working at Coors. It was in reference to the mainframe and dumb terminals around the campus. I was far more excited about the cutting edge stuff like Windows For Workgroups including Schedule Plus. We were busy installing this stuff via Novell Netware […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged cloud computing, Legacy system, maintenance, revenue, saas, software maintenance

Organized Robbery

Organized Robbery

By John Taschek on January 24, 2011

We’re at a time of rebellion against maintenance fees, which now include the elements of insurance, extortion, declining systems, and of course refactoring all of which add to the costs of any implementation. Add that into the actual implementation itself, and one is left with whopping fees and eventually ineffective…

Posted in Application Software, Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged @stevegillmor, cloud, cloud computing, cloudave, Duncan Jones, forrester, maintenance, maintenance fees, Oracle, pricing, salesforce, salesforce.com, software, software maintenance, Web/Tech | 1 Response

Business ByNetSuite vs Business ByDesign, Take Two

Business ByNetSuite vs Business ByDesign, Take Two

By Zoli Erdos on February 19, 2009

NetSuite, provider  of Web-based integrated business systems for the SMB market is going after bigger fish: the leader in Enterprise Software, SAP. The aptly named Business ByNetsuite program guarantees at least 50% savings to current SAP R/3 customers relative to  – watch this! – the annual maintenance fees they are now paying to SAP.  Yes, […]

Posted in Enterprise, Marketing, Small business | Tagged a1s, bbd, bs7, Business ByDesign, business bynetsuite, Business Suite 7, ByD, enterprise software, marketing, netsuite, saas, SaaS suite, sap, sap byd, small business software, smb, sme, software maintenance | 1 Response

NetSuite Goes After SAP – But Where is Business ByDesign?

NetSuite Goes After SAP – But Where is Business ByDesign?

By Zoli Erdos on November 7, 2008

Ben recently reported on how NetSuite is going after Salesforce.com, by announcing their Renewforce program.  Today NetSuite is going after bigger  fish: the leader in Enterprise Software, SAP. The aptly named Business ByNetsuite program guarantees at least 50% savings to current SAP R/3 customers relative to  – watch this! – the annual maintenance fees they […]

Posted in Enterprise, Marketing, Small business | Tagged a1s, bbd, Business ByDesign, ByD, enterprise software, marketing, netsuite, saas, sap, sap byd, small business software, smb, sme, software maintenance | 9 Responses

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