Yes – I am a fan of ByDesign and yes, I've told NS that it's a pretty darned complete offering and yes, I have go to market concerns for BYD and yes there are lingering doubts about NS sales play versus deliverables but hey…I give credit where it's due and rip 'em a new 'un when it isn't. Same as always.

If customers tell me they're happy then why should I doubt that?

mimecast says it has been on NS since 2007.

As a NetSuite escapist, I'd be delighted to learn that the company has seen the error of its ways and is now making a service that works properly (the vision has always been great), and no longer sees its customers as ripe for the picking every time a new feature is released or renewal negotiations come around.

Curious to know how long mimecast has truly been "running its business" on NS. Long enough to have completed non-US annual returns and VAT statements? Long enough to have got over the first flush of NS love that everyone encounters? Long enough to have had a renewal? Interesting to see that it appears to have an 'NS Administrator' — very wise move, but this has to ramp up the cost. Interesting that its website does not appear to be built on NS. There also has to be a suspicion that mimecast's CEO is also at an early flush of iPhone App love, after which a more balanced view comes to most people (impressive, but flawed) — can you really sing convincing praises for NS' App from first play (I can remember NS trumpeting that it ran on the iPhone browser, and was first to do so, so why a need for an App at all; yes a cheap shot, I know?) .

SAP customers: before you go further, Google 'bait and switch', and make a list of SAP's strong points.

This recent news report below is more reminiscent of the NS we ran away from…'NetSuite, Merchant in EBay-related Legal Row' (http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/172591/netsuite_merchant_in_ebayrelated_legal_row.html), though there may be mitigating factors.

Dennis — I can't believe this is true, but your posts recently have sounded like advertorials for SAP. Grud forbid you're now a NetSuite shill…hopefully, you're on the (good) money and I need to give NS another chance, but it's going to take an awful lot of hard evidence that this one's changed its spots. SAP I know little about as a solution/platform.

NS PR: yes I have a deep dislike and distrust of NS, and I don't give a monkey's if you denigrate me as unfit for human consumption due to my wild eyes and manic grin. Game on predators!