Posted by andy Sun, 14 Aug 2005 14:36:00 GMT
In 1999, there was a huge surge in interest in ASP’s for enterprise software. By 2001, pundits declared the model a failure. One analysis was that ASP’s wouldn’t be able to effectively service enterprise customers, because the systems needed to be customized and integrated, and doing so would …
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A friend of mine used to say “that’s repetitive AND redundant”. Three reasons why reuse is really important: 1) Customer awareness: Our enterprise prospects see reuse (in various forms, components, products, services) as a high-priority organizational mission, above open source. It was interesting that IBM saw reuse at the component …
Read more »Posted by andy@assembla.com Tue, 05 Jul 2005 17:43:00 GMT
User innovation, in the form of open source software, is one of the most powerful forces in the software business today. Will this force propel the software industry to yet another phase of bold innovation? Or, will it cripple commercial R&D organizations and lead to a future of stagnant, commoditized software?
Read more »Posted by andy@assembla.com Sun, 26 Jun 2005 17:46:00 GMT
What if you could tell, immediately, whether a given person is going to be a great addition to your team? You would be the greatest manager in the history of the world. Thats the promise held out by a careful reading of the book Blink, the Power of Thinking without Thinking, by Malcolm Gladwell.
Read more »Posted by andy@assembla.com Sun, 22 May 2005 17:50:00 GMT
Can established enterprise software vendors match the flexibility of open-source applications? Their customers want the ability to easily fix, integrate, and enhance applications. In many cases, everybody benefits from source code licensing. However, if you ask for source code from a vendor that doesn’t normally distribute it, you often get an instinctive answer of “we can’t do that�. You see fear, even paranoia. What are the sources of this fear that is preventing wider source code licensing and collaboration?
Read more »Posted by andy@assembla.com Thu, 19 May 2005 17:55:00 GMT
Is the enterprise software business dying? Is anybody out there buying new licenses? Based on news from the past few weeks, it seems that there are very few buyers. The collapse of new licensing revenue isn’t news – it started five years ago – but the latest news makes it look like a permanent and accelerating fact of life for software vendors.
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