Saturation stalls enterprise software market

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Dynamic enterprise publishing software
market to reach $1 bln by 2009

Dynamic enterprise publishing software
market to reach $1 bln by 2009 04/01/2005 08:32 PM
ZDNet Apr 2 2005 12:50AM GMT

Fast-track approval for EU software
patents stalls

Fast-track approval for EU software
patents stalls 05/18/2004 10:14 AM
ZDNet UK May 18 2004 1:54PM GMT

Research and Markets : Examination of
the Enterprise WLAN Equipment Market in
Particular the Market for WLAN Switches

Research and Markets : Examination of
the Enterprise WLAN Equipment Market in
Particular the Market for WLAN Switches 04/07/2005 02:54 AM
Research and Markets (researchandmarkets.com/reports/c15207) has announced the addition of “WLAN Switch”…Or Just “Switch”? : Business WLAN Market Analysis to their offering. [PRWEB Apr 7, 2005]

Enterprise Wi-Fi Market Set to Grow

Enterprise Wi-Fi Market Set to Grow 11/14/2003 01:48 PM
The Wi-Fi gear market grew 9 percent in the third quarter this year, according to research from the Dell'Oro Group: The author of this report concludes that the market is at a turning point where we may be just about to see significant growth in the enterprise sector. The market for access points for enterprise networks grew 25 percent in the quarter. Until now, the small and home office market has primarily driven growth, he said. I'm not sure we're quite on the cusp of seeing major uptake in the large enterprise sector yet because I still see a lot of confusion, given the wide variety of startups and products available to address enterprise needs. That confusion will clear up with market consolidation but that may not happen for a while. The press release with some more details is here....

Enterprise Wlan market at crossroads

Enterprise Wlan market at crossroads 04/15/2005 04:39 AM
Computer Weekly Apr 15 2005 8:28AM GMT

IBM Brings Supercomputing
to the
Enterprise Market

IBM Brings Supercomputing
to the
Enterprise Market 06/05/2005 10:58 PM
Q&A: IBM Vice President David Turek discusses what increasingly affordable supercomputing holds in store for business clients.

Mono Project Can Help The Mac In The
Enterprise Market

Mono Project Can Help The Mac In The
Enterprise Market 06/14/2004 09:57 AM
There's a large open source initiative under way to port Microsoft's .NET technology to Unix (including Mac OS X). By Dennis Sellers, Macsimum (via MyAppleMenu)

No diversification plans into enterprise
market, say Nokia

No diversification plans into enterprise
market, say Nokia 11/06/2003 12:19 PM
Computer Weekly Nov 6 2003 11:15AM ET

Macromedia Pushes into Mobile and
Enterprise Market

Macromedia Pushes into Mobile and
Enterprise Market 03/28/2005 11:31 PM
Business Wire India via Hindustan Times Mar 29 2005 3:59AM GMT

Browser Saturation

Browser Saturation 12/24/2004 12:57 PM

I'm curious these days about actual browser saturation statistics. Everyone has a different story.

Boing Boing reported this week that almost half of their visitors are coming in on a Mozilla-based browser. OneStat.com is reporting IE has dipped under 90% for the first time in many, many years. WebSideStory says Firefox market share is up 34% in one month (of course, they claim this is from 3% to 4%...).

W3Schools is reporting Mozilla saturation of over 20%, climbing from just 8% a year ago, but this is just their users, which are often Web developers who are more friendly to Firefox than the Average Joe. Browser News samples five sources, which report Firefox usage rates from 5% to 35%. TheCo unter.com gives Mozilla browsers about 9% in November.

While it seems consistent that Mozilla browsers are definately on the upswing, I'm beginning to think that browser numbers are good for only one site: the site from which the log files were pulled. Everything else is speculation.

Beautiful saturation

Beautiful saturation 08/10/2004 08:03 PM
The stunning photography of Yann Bertrand.

Microsoft denies plans for enterprise
apps market

Microsoft denies plans for enterprise
apps market 06/24/2004 07:31 PM
Infomatics Jun 24 2004 11:10PM GMT

Smoothwall launches it's first firewall
aimed at the enterprise market

Smoothwall launches it's first firewall
aimed at the enterprise market 03/31/2005 09:39 AM

Research And Markets: Review and
Forecasts for the Telecommunication
Enterprise And Consumer Market

Research And Markets: Review and
Forecasts for the Telecommunication
Enterprise And Consumer Market 04/13/2005 04:26 AM
Research and Markets (researchandmarkets.com/reports/c15502) has announced the addition of Enterprise and Consumer Market Review and Forecast to their offering. [PRWEB Apr 13, 2005]

Microsoft's VSTS Goal: Creating a Mass
Market for Enterprise Tools

Microsoft's VSTS Goal: Creating a Mass
Market for Enterprise Tools 07/29/2004 10:06 PM
In an eWEEK interview, Rick LaPlante, general manager of Visual Studio Team System at Microsoft shares his views on Microsoft's strategy for the new tool, competition with market leader Rational, and why Microsoft is not so keen on UML.

Microsoft to Increase XP Starter Edition
Saturation

Microsoft to Increase XP Starter Edition
Saturation 07/30/2004 01:53 AM
At Microsoft's financial analyst meeting the company announced its intention of broadening the Windows XP Starter Edition program to quell the rising tide of software piracy and abate the rising popularity of open source alternatives. Windows XP Starter Edition is a stripped down, no-thrills distribution of the operating system that was originally available exclusively in Thailand and Malaysia through social welfare programs.

Fujitsu Siemens Computers consolidates
its market share in the Small and Medium
Enterprise segment

Fujitsu Siemens Computers consolidates
its market share in the Small and Medium
Enterprise segment 01/26/2004 05:16 AM
AME Info Jan 26 2004 8:35AM GMT

Gillaspy Associates Launches
NetworkTestTools.com Offering Monitoring
and Analysis Solutions for the
Enterprise IT Market

Gillaspy Associates Launches
NetworkTestTools.com Offering Monitoring
and Analysis Solutions for the
Enterprise IT Market 04/18/2005 04:27 AM
Gillaspy Associates a leading provider of monitoring, analysis and connectivity solutions for network professionals and development engineers have launched a new web site focused on test solutions for the Enterprise IT professional. [PRWEB Apr 18, 2005]

Consolidation in Enterprise Software

Consolidation in Enterprise Software 02/10/2004 02:51 AM
From my handwritten notes (attributions lost), some highlights of the session on ERP sector consolidation at the Enterprise Software Summit. M&A was flat in 2003, except in the self-service category, which surged in the second half with 16 deals representing...

ITI’s Jail Management Software Goes
Enterprise

ITI’s Jail Management Software Goes
Enterprise 03/17/2005 03:44 AM
Information Technologies, Inc. (ITI) announced that distribution of their new Enterprise Edition Jail Management Software (JMS) would begin this month. - JMS is one of the modules in ITI’s Public Safety Software Series. ITI’s Enterprise Edition software is engineered around Microsoft’s Visual Studio .Net technology, and uses XML data to promote sharing. [PRWEB Mar 17, 2005]

Yahoo! Shuffles Its Enterprise Software
Biz

Yahoo! Shuffles Its Enterprise Software
Biz 11/03/2003 07:18 PM
Internet News Nov 3 2003 6:00PM ET

Enterprise Software: Warranty Woes

Enterprise Software: Warranty Woes 08/02/2004 05:02 PM
Technology executives want software suppliers to offer better warranties, but it's an uphill climb.

Enterprise Software No Longer Yahoo's
Cup Of Tea

Enterprise Software No Longer Yahoo's
Cup Of Tea 10/31/2003 06:18 PM
Remember when "enterprise portals" were a big deal? Back when Yahoo was struggling to figure out where they were going to make money as the online advertising market took its (temporary) hiatus, they had this vision of taking their "portal" technology and bringing it to the enterprise. They made a big splash about it when it launched, but you didn't hear much about it after that. That's probably because not too many people were interested. Now, Yahoo has announced that they' re shutting down the division and getting on with their life as a consumer play. They say they'll still be selling some enterprise products, with a focus on enterprise instant messaging, but it's certainly not going to be a big part of their business.

Enough With The Useless Enterprise
Software Upgrades

Enough With The Useless Enterprise
Software Upgrades 07/09/2004 11:41 AM
For Techdirt Corporate Intelligence, we've used Quickbooks to keep track of our bookkeeping. It's a decent, though not spectacular program. We bought a copy of Quickbooks Pro 2001 about the time it came out and have used it ever since. There was never any reason to upgrade, because the product worked fine as is, and none of the upgrade features were worthwhile. Our accountant, always looking for ways that we can save money, specifically recommended that there was absolutely no good reason to upgrade. However, at the end of April, Intuit "sunset" the product. This is fair. It makes sense for a company to eventually stop supporting old products. What is not fair, is that the product suddenly lost features because of this. We weren't worried about it being sunset, because we had never needed support from Intuit. However, starting in May, when we went to email out our customer invoices, the software said that it could no longer send emails because the product was sunset and we needed to upgrade. In other words, they didn't just sunset support for the product, they sunset features of the product and held our invoices ransom until we would pay for an upgrade. I called up Intuit and was told repeatedly that they needed to do this in order to give "the best support possible." I explained repeatedly that I understood the need to sunset support of products, but could not understand the need to sunset features that worked the day before. I had been a happy Intuit customer until the day they decided to hold my invoices for ransom, and now I was being forced to upgrade. The Intuit customer service rep promised to "escalate" the issue, and insisted I would hear back within a week. "Within a week" apparently means "never" to people at Intuit. Over at News.com, Charles Cooper is noting that companies are increasingly tired of the forced enterprise software upgrade path, which only helps the enterprise software company. He points out that these companies are reaching a point where they're simply not going to accept it any more, and software vendors need to realize this -- or someone else is going to come along who does things better. In the meantime, does anyone know of a good alternative to Quickbooks? So far, investigations into their main competitors suggest every one is just as bad. It's no fun going with the best of a terrible group. There must be a better solution out there, and if there isn't, shouldn't that represent an opportunity for someone to do things right?

Customers Angry Over Enterprise Software

Customers Angry Over Enterprise Software 02/11/2004 09:38 PM
If you've been involved in the buying or selling of enterprise software, you're likely aware that much of it is something of a scam. The prices are quite flexible, and the "real" costs show up much later, when people realize that (a) the product doesn't really work the way they wanted it to (b) it needs ridiculous amounts of expensive customization, maintenance and training and (c) the vendor is always breathing down their neck to pay for an "upgrade" and service contract. As it stands, the incentives for the vendors are to make the initial price seem low, but to make sure the actual software doesn't work very well. It appears that customers are starting to catch on and increasingly angry about standard practices in enterprise software. They're also (finally!) threatening to stop playing into the system and changing their buying habits. They're training their own people to support the system, they're renegotiating maintenance contracts and they're switching to "more accommodating" vendors. Clearly, there's room for companies to come in with much more reasonable offerings. In some cases, I imagine this is going to take the form of ASP or hosted offerings, but those are still limited depending on what the customer needs. It could make sense for a company to pull a PR move and start advertising much more transparent pricing plans to better attract customers who feel more comfortable knowing what they're really paying for.

Business Models in Enterprise Software

Business Models in Enterprise Software 02/10/2004 02:51 AM
A great discussion at the Enterprise Software Summit on business models. Particular emphasis on: perpetual license vs. subscription; and hosted vs. premises. Which is natural for a conference with mostly CRM attendees these days. Salesforce's IPO is shaking things up....

Yahoo shutters enterprise software
division

Yahoo shutters enterprise software
division 10/31/2003 04:09 PM
The Web giant has laid off an undisclosed number of employees and is folding the operations of the enterprise software division into its consumer side.

Yahoo shuts up enterprise-software shop

Yahoo shuts up enterprise-software shop 11/03/2003 05:29 AM
ZDNet UK Nov 3 2003 5:29AM ET

Yahoo shuts enterprise software division

Yahoo shuts enterprise software division 11/02/2003 03:12 PM
CNET Asia Nov 2 2003 1:38PM ET

Aberdeen: CRM To Lead SMB Enterprise
Software Spending (NewsFactor)

Aberdeen: CRM To Lead SMB Enterprise
Software Spending (NewsFactor) 08/17/2004 05:45 PM
NewsFactor - Small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) still view cost-cutting as their primary reason for making enterprise software purchases. But customer acquisition and retention ranks second, and for that reason they will spend more on CRM functionality than any other enterprise software area this year, according to data gathered by Aberdeen Research.

Applying "Digital Hub" Concepts to
Enterprise Software Design

Applying "Digital Hub" Concepts to
Enterprise Software Design 05/04/2004 09:03 PM
Adam Behringer: "One thing that I have discovered is that there are many common issues and design challenges for this type of software, even in vastly different industries. In this article, I will share an architecture approach that has worked well for most of the projects in which I have participated. In future articles, I will give some practical tutorials for building a complex business system one step at a time."

Anti virus software embedded in
Enterprise Java

Anti virus software embedded in
Enterprise Java 04/26/2004 08:50 AM

Softscout.Com Becomes the Largest
Enterprise Software Selection Site on
the Internet

Softscout.Com Becomes the Largest
Enterprise Software Selection Site on
the Internet 03/14/2005 04:45 PM
With over 10,000 enterprise software products from over 6,000 vendors, SoftScout.com (www.softscout.com) is now the largest business software directory on the Internet. Businesses that are looking for software can use SoftScout to quickly and easily come up with a list of solutions that meet their needs. [PRWEB Feb 28, 2005]

Software Engineer - User Interface,
Enterprise Services Team

Software Engineer - User Interface,
Enterprise Services Team 04/09/2004 06:46 PM
Amazon.com - United States, Washington, Seattle (2004-04-09)

From A Second Tier Chinese Portal Site
To An Enterprise Software Powerhouse?

From A Second Tier Chinese Portal Site
To An Enterprise Software Powerhouse? 05/04/2004 03:56 AM
Business Week is running an article looking at the changing strategies of chinadotcom. The company, which had always been a second tier portal site in China (not as popular as Sina, Netease or Sohu), is now trying to completely reinvent itself. They're selling off that going nowhere portal business, and are desperately trying to become an enterprise software player in the Chinese market. To do so, they've been using some of the cash they've been hoarding (from a boom-time IPO on the NASDAQ) to buy up struggling western enterprise software makers like Pivotal and Ross Systems. While the article seems to indicate this is a good strategy, they don't make it clear why. Going from a second tier portal to a consolidation play of widely distributed, previously failed, out-of-date enterprise software products seems like a shift sideways, rather than up.

Software Forces SPL 2.5 (Smart Pick
Lists) for Crystal Enterprise 10
Released

Software Forces SPL 2.5 (Smart Pick
Lists) for Crystal Enterprise 10
Released 08/17/2004 02:19 AM
Software Forces enables dynamic values for parameter pick lists with SPL 2.5 (Smart Pick Lists) for Crystal Enterprise 10 and ePortfolio and allows for dynamic look and feel control. [PRWEB Aug 17, 2004]

NetSupport DNA Software Wins CeBIT
America's Best Enterprise Systems
Management

NetSupport DNA Software Wins CeBIT
America's Best Enterprise Systems
Management 06/01/2004 08:24 PM
dBusinessNews.com Jun 1 2004 10:12PM GMT

Scalable Systems releases Scalable Rocks
V1.0 to address the High Performance
Computing and Enterprise Market

Scalable Systems releases Scalable Rocks
V1.0 to address the High Performance
Computing and Enterprise Market 06/20/2004 03:46 AM
Scalable Systems Pte Ltd, a pioneering High Performance Computing (HPC) company based in Singapore has announced the release of Scalable Rocks V1.0.Scalable Rocks is a complete cluster distribution built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux - an enterprise class and commercially supported Linux operating system. Based on NPACI Rocks developed by the Rocks Cluster Group at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and its contributors, Scalable Rocks extends Rocks with web-based cluster tools for both the cluster administrator and the end-user. [PRWEB Jun 20, 2004]

SimpleConnect IP Voice Challenges
Incumbents in Enterprise Voice Market

SimpleConnect IP Voice Challenges
Incumbents in Enterprise Voice Market 12/19/2004 03:09 PM
Delivers savings of over 50% with business-class quality [PRWEB Dec 16, 2004]
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