"Microsoft and IBM executives Wednesday admitted feeling heat from Google now that the Web search giant is trying to make inroads into the enterprise market with its hosted suite of communication and collaboration tools." says NetworkWorld.Desktop productivity suites -- i.e. Microsoft and Open Office -- are beginning to appear as legacy apps for younger internet … Continue reading We’re moving from Desktop to Webtop
What business are we in: Software or advertising? Google latest news
I just couldn't help but coming back on Google (GOOG) latest news, accelerating innovation and dominance -- read Google expands office software for more on businessweek.com -- attacking both Yahoo and Microsoft at the same time :"Google announced Friday it would pay $3.1 billion to acquire ad-management technology company DoubleClick Inc....Google announced the acquisition Tuesday … Continue reading What business are we in: Software or advertising? Google latest news
O3Spaces: open source SharePoint for OpenOffice
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
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?
Watch advertising and make money
We discussed here several times how advertising could be the revenue stream allowing for free software, free music or free video. In an interesting statement, Microsoft highlights how far larger is the advertising opportunity compared to the software one world-wide. "Our close partnership with the ad community is extremely important to us as we evolve … Continue reading Watch advertising and make money
Marketing Myopa and Web 2.0
Theodore Levitt died last week at 81. For all of us reading HBR about marketing, this is probably as a period closing as the recent loss of Peter Drucker for management. I don't know what your reaction is when you receive such a headline, but I naturally go back to my library and start to … Continue reading Marketing Myopa and Web 2.0
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