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February 8, 2008

 

News SummarySigns of the Times

More speculation about a Microsoft-Yahoo combo; plus, Torvalds analyzes competitors, the marriage of HR and SaaS, body heat wanted, integration needed, and more software news of the week.


Once upon a time, there was one main route for traveling the Internet's paths - Yahoo. A cloud referred to a weather phenomenon. Getting SaaS-y referred to a disrespectful way of talking, rather than an enterprise IT strategy to access applications online, dramatically impacting software sales. And corporate end-users had no way to get around their IT departments in choice of applications. That's all changing.

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SANDHILL.COM BLOG POST OF THE WEEK:

Mobile Mambo

Guy Smith
If I were a young pup just starting out into the big, bad, brawling world of technology marketing, I'd run like the Devil himself were chasing me into the mobile market.

It is a wild place, with zero loyalty between vendors, customers, partners, and technology. It is currently one huge cesspool of competing interests, awaiting a shakeout, collapse, and consolidation.

But since we - as an alleged society - have only started to explore the potential of carrying and wearing wirelessly connected computers, the market-wide shakeout is still a long way off.

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This Week's M&As

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Execs on the Move: February 4, 2008

New executives step up at Adzilla and other companies.

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