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09/09/2008 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Chrome rounds out Google’s platform plays

By The Unreasonablemen

A guest post from the unreasonablemen.net A year or so ago I went to a Salesforce.com event in which they trotted out a Google Apps exec to support their no software message.  The guy (I forget his name) was delayed coming into Sydney and so was pretty jet lagged. His only

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05/09/2008 Posted in Business 3 Comments

I won’t be using Chrome.

By The Unreasonablemen

A guest post from the unreasonablemen.net A couple of reasons. Firstly unlike Firefox and Safari and of course the corporate supported IE, it doesn’t seem to get past the companies proxy server.  Second, and most importantly to me I’m not prepared to give Google any more information about myself.  Don’t get

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08/07/2008 Posted in Business 11 Comments

People, you’ve only got yourselves to blame.

By The Unreasonablemen

A guest post from the unreasonablemen.net Vodafone NZ’s iPhone pricing has become so topical we even made some US news wires…well done but I’m sorry you only have yourselves to blame… I told a couple of you repeatedly that it is just a phone. And you kept giving me the

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02/07/2008 Posted in SaaS 2 Comments

Can Google go Enterprise?

By The Unreasonablemen

A guest post from the unreasonablemen.net There’s a growing opinion that the answer to that is no. Om Malik got stuck into Gmail last week. How is one supposed to run a business on such an unreliable platform? The integration of Google’s services remains a distant dream, reminding us of

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05/05/2008 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Where incumbents go wrong

By The Unreasonablemen

A guest post from the unreasonablemen.net I saw this from Ovum analysing SAP’s Q1 financials. There are a couple of take outs from this that really struck me with respect to SaaS and incumbent business models. 1) The company is still growing its core business (double digit growth no less)

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07/04/2008 Posted in Business Leave a comment

It was never about competition

By The Unreasonablemen

In case you were wondering. The Labour government has zero interest in improving the broadband situation in this country. This report on the line just shows that the whole operational separation is a political exercise. The reports here were obtained under the official informations act… The report, dated five weeks

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18/03/2008 Posted in Business, Cleantech, Economic Development, Society, Strategy 1 Comment

A grand vision…

By The Unreasonablemen

This isn’t my normal topic, but I can’t resist. I’ve secretly always harbored a dream that NZ might really make something of itself. Do what Germany & Japan did post WWII & Ireland have done recently & recreate their economies. To me, the easiest way to do this was to

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11/03/2008 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Microsoft’s picture of a unified future…

By The Unreasonablemen

{this is a mirror post of unreasonablemen.net} And no it has nothing to do with Vista…. BUT, it does have everything to do with Microsoft Mesh and MS’s S+S strategy. Gianpaolo from the development team outlines a simple S+S example here. I love Office 2007, the interface is clean, efficient

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03/03/2008 Posted in SaaS 4 Comments

Scale Benefits in Action

By The Unreasonablemen

I’ve been thinking a bit more about SaaS. & scale. One of the assertions I made in my previous post was that companies that achieve scale get more profit. I wrote a piece previously on SaaS provider profitability in it I put this diagram from Mckinseys The key element to

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Ben Kepes is an analyst, an entrepreneur, a commentator and a business adviser. His business interests include a diverse range of industries from manufacturing to property to technology. As a technology commentator he has a broad presence both in the traditional media and extensively online. Ben covers the convergance of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users. More on Ben

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