The big German ERP titan has teamed with Sybase to launch a
not uninteresting operation
to allow users to access ERP data on mobile devices.
Posted by Lee Pender on 03/12/20090 comments
We're cleaning out the reader e-mail cupboard this week, so let's get started.
On Microsoft's apparent return to its roots in 2009, we got a comment from longtime friend of RCP Ken Thoreson, who now has his very own, very good blog on RCPmag.com. Anyway, here's what Ken had to say:
"Absolutely the right spot to be. What made Microsoft was excellent execution...something that has been lacking in many aspects of their day-to-day operations."
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Posted by Lee Pender on 03/12/20090 comments
Musings
for the mobile-minded from Jeff Schwartz.
Posted by Lee Pender on 03/12/20090 comments
The corporate vice president for Windows product management opens up on the new browser
here
.
Posted by Lee Pender on 03/11/20090 comments
It is with great regret that, after three consecutive years of covering the event live, your editor is not at Convergence this year. It is with even greater regret that missing Convergence 2009 means missing a trip to New Orleans, one of your editor's favorite cities and a place where he'd happily help rebuild the local economy by spending 1105 Media's money.
But alas, priorities have changed, and RCPU will be covering the annual Dynamics show from Framingham, Mass., this year. It's not the worst place a person could be, but it's also not the home of jambalaya, Dixie Beer -- sadly, apparently brewed in Wisconsin post-Katrina -- Dixieland jazz and just generally rolling the good times.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 03/11/20090 comments
Interesting stuff bouncing around this week about
changes Microsoft is planning on making
to the Partner Program. Apparently, the program is going to be less about technology and more about business planning, less generic and more specific in its certifications, and less Microsoft-focused and more customer-centric. Decipher
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Posted by Lee Pender on 03/11/20090 comments
The late
Patsy Cline
would probably have loved Windows 7. Or, at least, she might have related to it. In her tragically brief career (and life), Patsy was famous for falling to pieces, and, in a sense, that's what Windows 7 will do.
OK, so maybe falling to pieces isn't the perfect metaphor, but Windows 7 will have a modular nature that will allow users to turn off all sorts of features and applications...including Internet Explorer. Now, that last bit is interesting, as everybody is noting this week, because Microsoft has famously said for years that IE was the one "piece" that Microsoft couldn't let "fall off" of Windows.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 03/10/20093 comments
Kirill Tatarinov took some time to
talk Convergence
with
Redmond
magazine for the March issue, while
The Seattle Times
cranked out a
pretty interesting profile
of the head of Microsoft's Dynamics business, who, it turns out, is a ski racer in his spare time.
Posted by Lee Pender on 03/10/20090 comments
There were whispers in some corners that the company that owns RCPU was crazy to start a virtualization magazine,
Virtualization Review
, not long ago. Well, we're looking a lot less crazy now with studies like
Forrester's latest
, which shows that virtualization is very well-established in the enterprise as well as among SMBs. VMware's leading the way, of course, in terms of hypervisor market share, but Microsoft is in the leader's rear-view mirror.
Posted by Lee Pender on 03/10/20090 comments