Some good pointers to consider making a close source effort to open source. Here is an example of Ingres and how it transition from close source to open source.
Key points — and SCO/Unix fight has contributed to this learning.
Entrepreneurs alike who are either looking to bootstrap their business or work with an investor will find reading “Bootstrapping” book by Greg Gianforte helpful. Greg is a serial entrepreneur and currently the founder, CEO of RightNow — which is a SaaS/CRM play in the enterprise arena. Although the book…
Sometime back, I wrote my thoughts around Enterprise 2.0 and how it is about leveraging social communities within an extended enterprise. I was asked whether Enterprise 2.0 is just another round of attempt to deliver on the…
AMR wrote an article sometime back whether evolution of SOA will kill ERP.
I would think, if anything it will spur ERP backbone growth and help unlock various enterprise vendors to build better (and complete) stack for different industries, sub-industries, geographies…
There are several upcoming technologies that will have much impact to the enterprise applications like SOA, Web 2.0, etc. Various pundits have already touted the technical advantage of all these technologies. To prove the point, every major software vendor today…
Much opinions have been floating on each side of the discussion why Open Source is or isn’t a good idea for an enterprise. Usual suspect like long sales cycle, implementation challenges, support concerns, etc. are cited as the barrier to…
Much discussion is in progress about Enterprise 2.0 — including a large cry after “Enterprise 2.0” was deleted from Wikipedia earlier. Here is my simple explanation of Enterprise 2.0.
Model every day enterprise users activity leveraging Web 2.0 based technologies (like Ajax…