Joshua Greenbaum

Enterprise Software Overnight Success Stories Pure Fiction

It's always interesting to investigate the truth behind the headlines, and even more interesting when you find out that there is no truth at all behind the...

Microsoft’s New CRM Software Just The Beginning

Microsoft made good on its threat to expand its enterprise software offerings with a new customer relationship management product, MSCRM, due out by the end of the...

The Price of Software Happiness

Software pricing has always reminded me of a black hole, which is hard to see mostly because its gravitational field is so strong that no light can...

JDE: Back to the Present?

The enterprise software market is an unforgiving place, littered with the ruins of many a fine company. And while it's pretty easy to make the transition from...

The Applications Glut and the Glueware Solution

As befitting a holiday season defined by excessive eating and scarfing antacids by the handful, it's time to be honest about the application glut that prevents users...

SAP Sizzles, Siebel Fizzles

Tom Siebel played coy at his company's last financial analyst call, but the fix was already in. The once high-flying terror of the CRM market slipped into...

Here Comes Microsoft (Again)

Microsoft's enterprise software gang came calling last month. Every year they say they're serious about the enterprise software market. Every year their PR people scratch me off...

Summer of Love Among ERP Rivals?

One of the more startling innovations that SAP failed to announce at a recent Sapphire user conference came in a presentation that showed the unshowable: a heterogeneous...

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