By Subraya Mallya
The recent acquisition of Sybase by SAP got me thinking. Is it me or most leading large companies, thanks to their acquisition binge are beginning to resemble the erstwhile General Motors?
Take a look at Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, IBM and CA, the top 5 pure play software companies (granted IBM is a little service heavy still). [...]
By Subraya Mallya
A friend of mine, whom I have been trying-to-convert as a SaaS believer, sent me this article with a quote from Harry Debes, the CEO of Lawson Software, no less.
http://www.webguild.org/2008/08/saas-industry-will-collapse-in-two-years.php
What a statement it was !!.
In his opinion, Harry makes a valid argument about customer acquisition costs/investment and the flight risk of customers off-boarding just as [...]
