What Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, And SAP Don't Tell Customers
What Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, And SAP Don't Tell Customers - *Microsoft mainly wants to protect Windows<http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/windows>and Office. *Microsoft is a platform company, and its main goal is to protect its highly lucrative Windows and Office monopolies, while establishing other platforms that will be hard for customers to break away from later. New functionality is "drip fed" to users of those core platforms, but new products exist to protect the core. He advised extreme caution before moving to Office 365, and said not to slip into an "all-Microsoft" mentality. - *Oracle products don't really work well together. *Oracle's sales force is extremely aggressive about pushing a suite of products, but has much fewer integration points than SAP. In fact, integration is usually left entirely up to the customer. Oracle is also very reluctant to talk about product roadmaps for fear that future products will cannibalize existing ones. The company makes more than 90% of its profits through maintenance fees, and will do whatever it takes to keep those fees flowing in. Gaughan also expressed some surprise that so many customers keep working with Oracle despite reporting that Oracle is "the most difficult vendor to deal with." - *IBM wants to take over your IT strategy. *IBM bills itself as a thought leader, but its real business is selling consulting services. To thrive, IBM account managers try to take control of a company's IT strategy so they can keep pushing new products. Gaughan recommends taking a collaborative or partner approach. - *SAP confuses customers with pricing. *A lot of SAP customers ask Gartner for help figuring out SAP's pricing and licensing, as SAP has unusual terms for billing data going into and out of systems. Gaughan also said that a big technology transition that was driving SAP revenue for the last few years -- moving existing customers from the old R/3 system to the newer Business Suite -- is almost done, which means SAP will have to be more aggressive with maintenance fees. He recommended locking in maintenance prices now. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/what-microsoft-oracle-ibm-and-sap-dont-tell-c... Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/what-microsoft-oracle-ibm-and-sap-dont-tell-c... -- Peter Muchemi Software Developer/Entrepreneur http://www.software.co.ke +254 722 320986
@Muchemi, imho: Please also highlight the MAC OS practises too in the context of this thread. Also, when we want to bash Oracle, I very much support that they are justified to charge for mysql. As classic example was the Access Kenya website which I read some years back cost around 10million? Now if the web site developer used free-code to literally make commercial millions, then this is a complete abuse of the freedoms that defeat the progress. Proprietary software can work and also reduce costs of ownerships. So far I've not heard of growing Mobile sector economies asking for free phones, but the phone manufacturers through mass markets practises have maintained buiness flow and manufacturing plants that have vitutally dropped the prices to extremely affordable prices. Me thots. :-) **--If I ever wrote code on a system for the better of consumer freedoms or choice, I'd rather create the complete system with people who share the same views than give out a single line of code to code thieves who will use it to defeat the principles of freedom and choices---2011--Me--**
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 8:55 AM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
Also, when we want to bash Oracle, I very much support that they are justified to charge for mysql.
certainly. you can still download and deploy the open source version commercially.
As classic example was the Access Kenya website which I read some years back cost around 10million? Now if the web site developer used free-code to literally make commercial millions, then this is a complete abuse of the freedoms that defeat the progress.
"10 million" was perhaps more to do with "smart" accounting rather than actual cost. even if the developer charged "10 million" - and somebody was willing to pay for it ( a standard commerce transaction like buying mineral water ) - you are implying some kind of crime happened, who is the victim ?
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 9:14 AM, <ashok+skunkworks@parliaments.info> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 8:55 AM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
Also, when we want to bash Oracle, I very much support that they are justified to charge for mysql.
certainly. you can still download and deploy the open source version commercially.
Does the personal use converted to commercial use have any limits?
As classic example was the Access Kenya website which I read some years back cost around 10million? Now if the web site developer used free-code to literally make commercial millions, then this is a complete abuse of the freedoms that defeat the progress.
"10 million" was perhaps more to do with "smart" accounting rather than actual cost.
even if the developer charged "10 million" - and somebody was willing to pay for it ( a standard commerce transaction like buying mineral water ) - you are implying some kind of crime happened, who is the victim ?
I'm not implying anything, just stating the use of free code to build hidden commercial empires, those costs get passed on back to the consumers/general public/share holders. I could understand if the web system was built on complete proprietary but not when free-code is involved.
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