March 30, 2007
General
SAP will give you a free HP Laptop worth up to £500 if you are a new customer prepared to buy 5 professional user licenses of BusinessOne plus the maintenance that goes with it…. I remember in the late 90s I was in the office when our deputy editor on Information Week was testing yet another IBM notebook…. SMB software was around £800 a pop and enterprise software licensing ran at around £2K a pop. That day has come…. As each day passes, I wonder why so many software vendors continue to see the need to get top dollar for software that is essentially mature yet also continue to charge high maintenance fees. Ah yes – their investors have become used to 20-30% net income before tax and for them to make big changes in their business model would scare investors away and users would end up the losers as the companies ran out of cash…. FYI – The extract I’ve include above are from remarks Vinnie Mirchandani and Jason Wood recently made on a longer podcast that will be available in the very near future.
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March 30, 2007
Uncategorized
I’ve deliberately avoided a discussion of recent distressing events in the blog world not because I have nothing to say but because I have nothing to add…. As professionals, I’d ask you to consider how applying this approach to client relationships might help cement and foster the relationships you already have and those you’d like to have. To give you an indication of those who are currently on the Content Labels ‘bench’ apart from Paul and myself: Tom Raftery – award winning podcaster and believer in clean tech and personal friend Sam Sethi – former partner to Mike Arrington of TechCrunch, part owner of Vecosys and a serial entrepreneur, also a personal friend…. Jemima Kiss, journalist and blogger for the Guardian I have a sense that others who believe in the value of this medium but are concerned about how to to use it safely in business will join the discussion…. For professionals, this means that Content Labels can assist you in working out policies that are understandable and useful to your business partner ecosystem…. Dare I say it could serve as a light metaphor for the establishment and maintenance of ethical standards for which qualified professionals need to be adequately trained?
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