When I was working on a travel-related start-up idea last year, I had a call with a senior executive from a major web travel company. What she said really surprised me - that the majority of America still decides on where to go based on the following technique: when they see a compelling destination [...]
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SaaS == ASP == out of business
Lawson’s chief executive, Harry Debes, just did a short interview with ZDnet Asia where he talks about the upcoming demise of SaaS.
I find several of his assertions wrong and in fact contradictory to other statements that he makes in the same interview. My takeaway: this reads like a classic case of a company not [...]
Outsourced business intelligence
As more infrastructure moves into the cloud, we have also started to see a migration of applications into the cloud. Salesforce and CRM were the early movers. More recently, I have been seeing entrepreneurs explore how to move much larger applications (like SAP) and application stacks (like BI) into the cloud.
My most recent discovery [...]
Firefox-based enterprise support business
A few weeks back, I read something somewhere that talked about the fact that Firefox could increase its enterprise adoption if there were better enterprise-quality support for it. Seems like an obvious business idea with a business model similar to the RedHat support model. Are there well-established businesses out there already doing this?