September 17, 2002
Forbes: Microsoft Is Plain Crazy
Forbes Publisher Rich Karlgaard writes about the morphing of Great Plains into Microsoft Business Solutions.
Here's a prediction: sometime later in the decade a series of deadly missiles will hit Oracle, SAP and other global enterprise-software giants. It will surface in due course that the missiles were launched from little Fargo, N.D. by order of Doug Burgum, a guy with a lion's mane of hair who favors Nike shirts, cargo shorts and water sandals for office attire. More on this Burgum fellow later.
Currently, Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ) and SAP (nyse: SAP - news - people ) are all right. Along with Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) and IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ), both will survive the tech bust and the consolidation crunch yet to come. Their five-year prognosis is sunny. CIOs--at least, every CIO I talk to--are under orders from their CEOs to shrink the software vendor list. In this winnowing, Oracle and SAP will emerge winners. (full story)
Get Small Business Technology Report
Via Email Every Tuesday
What is Smallbiztechnology.com?
Smallbiztechnology.com helps small-medium sized businesses strategically use technology as a tool to grow their businesses and provides news, articles, discussion boards, resources, analysis & events for the owners of small to medium sized busineses.
Subscribe to the Smallbiztechnology feed.
Recent Posts
- Pay-Per-Click Advertising for Peanuts
- Downloading Microsoft Windows Updates Can Be Bad For Your Health
- Time is Money. How Are You Tracking Yours?
- Are You Collaborating Creatively?
- When Technology Embarrasses Us! :)
- Is Online Marketing Confusing You?
- Email Marketing Providers: How to Choose
- Can Social Networking Improve Internal Collaboration?
- Is 1.5 TeraBytes of Storage Too Much?
- Should Your Face Be On Your Web Site?
Join our Facebook group
The Third Annual Small Business Summit 2008 was a smashing success. Check out the Summit site for what you missed. See the 2008 Summit presentations, video and photos!
Post a comment