Larry Dignan of ZDNet has a post on how Google can get to $100 billion per some Wall St. analyst. And I want in on this scam. But before I pontificate, here is a quote from the blog post: Google is projected by Wall Street to have annual revenue of $15.7 billion in 2008 and […]
Archives for September 2007
Oracle Webcast: Web2.0 in the Enterprise
Oracle is hosting a chat with Andrew McAfee of Harvard Business School and Thomas Kurian, Senior Vice-President, Oracle Fusion Middleware. I encourage you to register for the event. Oracle’s guest Andrew is a well-known Web2.0 advocate on how businesses can leverage Web2.0 for internal and external communications and automation of processes. This should be an […]
AnshuBlog.com valuation hits $5 Trillion after private placement round
My blog is now worth $5 trillion dollars. My best friend (now, BFF) agreed to buy a 0.0000000010% stake in anshublog.com for $50. I will hold an IPO in December and the shares will be priced at $85 (of course, there will 58,823,529,411 shares outstanding). You can obtain a prospectus by sending me $25 by […]
Marc-to-Market in Plain English: Is public company accounting really broken?
In this post, I explain the mark-to-market scheme (or accounting mechanism) in plain English. Marc Andreessen says – That’s it, public company accounting is broken – on how public companies including big banks and brokerage houses are claiming profits on their books by marking down their own debt obligations. Here is what he has to […]
SaaS Event: Software Business Online Conference (Discount Code Included)
I will be giving a keynote the Software Business Online Conference in Santa Clara on Oct 2nd on the SaaS Ecosystem. In my role of working with Oracle SaaS Program partners, I have learned some lessons on where the SaaS ecosystem is headed, what mistakes to avoid, how to pick the right partners and ecosystems […]
Open Source vs. SaaS: SaaS will Profit and Standards will Win
Dave Rosenberg has written a thoughtful post on Open Source vs. SaaS with a declaration “Open Source will Win“. His key argument is that open source creates a community of users and developers while SaaS only creates a community of users. I think that open source is a powerful (and rather old) distribution mechanism that […]
Office2.0: Ismael Announces oPhone – an Open Source Device Competition
The final session of Office 2.0 was a VC panel discussion followed by closing remarks by Ismael Ghalimi – the organizer of Office2.0. Ismael had a hard time dealing with Apple this year even though he was doing them a huge favor by gifting everyone (except media) a free iPhone. But Apple made it really […]
Does Office2.0 help me build a better washing machine?
The line that stood out for me at the Office 2.0 Conference panel discussion hosted by Dan Farber is “Does this Office2.0 stuff help me build a better washing machine?” In other words, the customers care about their businesses, how to optimize profits and building better products- and Office2.0 or Web2.0 is no different than […]
The I-could-do-it-better Syndrome of ERP Watchers
There is a blog war waging on the value of ERP systems or more precisely, the price/value calculation. It all started with a blog post by my friend & Irregular, Dennis Howlett wrote about SAP in a recent post. Thomas Otter wrote a fiery Who Exactly are you calling a Laggard? piece which I think […]
SaaS lovers want it both ways – a short rant
A lot of SaaS proponents take great pride in distinguishing the new Software as a Service era from the hosted applications or ASP model – and insist that there is only one right way of doing SaaS. This is in direct contrast to what I am seeing a lot of ISVs do in real life […]