Joshua Greenbaum

SAP is hardly known for its revolutionary fervor, but it’s clear that they’re storming the barricades over in Waldorf and Palo Alto. The

I just watched the Wizard of Oz with my kids, so forgive me if basic struggles of good versus evil are foremost on my mind these days. And long journeys

When it comes to betting against Microsoft, I have to admit to having a standard reaction honed over twenty-plus years of following the company:

The last time we had a major slump in tech spending was way back in 2002. It was an interesting year to be in the enterprise software market, as report

Larry almost always gets his way, particularly when it comes to buying software companies. So it came to me as no surprise that the BEA deal finally

As 2008 gets underway, I thought I’d get started on the doom and gloom prognosticating with a column on the ten things that won’t change about

One of the biggest gotchas in the enterprise software market is the upgrade problem. You buy the software for a chunk of money, implement it for another

One of the subplots that played out in the early days of Oracle’s acquisition spree was the IBM connection: There, inside the customer bases that

If software as a service takes hold in a big way, it will spell the beginning of the end of what has become in many cases a necessary evil that the world

Speculation has been rampant for years, literally, about whether Google would ever make a major play for the enterprise. This issue surfaced earlier in

I consider myself pretty well-versed in the ins and outs of upgrading PCs, having been around them ever since I built my first PC (a Heathkit CP/M

It’s official, Salesforce.com has some competition. Microsoft’s new pricing for its on-demand CRM product is hitting Salesforce.com squarely