Comments on: Send in the Clowns http://techcrunch.com/2008/07/08/send-in-the-clowns/ Startup and Technology News Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:13:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: dMix http://techcrunch.com/2008/07/08/send-in-the-clowns/#comment-14358 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:49:24 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=166#comment-14358 Its interesting how Microsoft dominated the dominated the app market early on. Theres two observations from this: 1) Being first to market isn’t always the best in the long term, people learn from your mistakes. 2) Big companies can’t adapt to new technology that quickly without messing up their existing revenue streams.

Way to play the big company role, Microsoft.

Their developers have the right idea but they aren’t executing at Microsofts existing standards.

]]> By: Open Source ERP Guru http://techcrunch.com/2008/07/08/send-in-the-clowns/#comment-14357 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:37:16 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=166#comment-14357 The hybrid software deployment model (SaaSOn-Premise) really sounds great, but I wonder how many companies have actually implemented the model.
SaaSing your On-Premise software is similar to standard migration procedures very common in corporate IT. However, I do not see large enterprises SaaS their data assets so easily, security being the most significant issue. I agree that Microsoft is a company that many enterprises trust, but I am not sure how much footprint they have in large IT accounts in non-Exchange-Office applications.
Deploying large scale,true multi-tenancy business application can be tricky. SalesForce proved they can do it. For others, the burden of proof remains.

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