The open source world is about to welcome a competitor to SharePoint from Microsoft. In 2007, O3Spaces from the Netherlands will release its open source version of its integrated collaboration and document management application for workgroups and small businesses that use OpenOffice.org or its commercial sibling StarOffice. It is already available in its professional version, … Continue reading O3Spaces: open source SharePoint for OpenOffice
Is Microsoft 2.0 on the rise?
Most of us do remember the last major Microsoft transformation around the Internet in 1996, don't you? At the announcement for its new BBS, Microsoft Network (MSN) Bill Gates declared about the Internet something as "it's just a fad". After Windows 95 launch, Microsoft was quickly reorganized in 1996 and did let appear an Internet … Continue reading Is Microsoft 2.0 on the rise?
Google rides the wave, Microsoft follows, Yahoo is in pain
Following our question about where Microsoft business model was going - read Hey Microsoft, are you becoming Googled? - and now that all 3 Internet titans have published their quarterly results, let's stop for a while and understand who is ahead of the curve. Assuming financial analysts and investors are doing their due diligence properly, … Continue reading Google rides the wave, Microsoft follows, Yahoo is in pain
Hey Microsoft, are you becoming Googled?
I attended yesterday an event in Paris entitled "Interactive Marketing: future is in our hand", co-organized by Microsoft and the media planning group MPG . The fact that Microsoft is putting some effort to address the communication specialists and advertising agencies, is a clear signal that Steve Ballmer's statement about the advertising business - see … Continue reading Hey Microsoft, are you becoming Googled?
Emmanuel Obadia & Partners | Transform & Innovate 