Gary Turner

eBIS-XML v SUBL: it's a stupid discussion

October 7, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS
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I’m not going to get all techie here so don’t worry. Instead I am going to address the elephant in the room when it comes to standards. It seems I sparked off something of a debate among the vendors with my SUBL post. That was to be expected. In the one corner we have Xero, [...]

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Xero tilting at Sage?

July 7, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Gary Turner’s post: Long distance running, icebergs and Sage contains this intriguing passage: …building a business that gets to 1,000 paying customers is very tough, but getting to 5,000 or 10,000 and beyond is exponentially much, much harder and more complex, particularly if you have to change course or undo decisions mid-way through. So, it’s [...]

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A Xero day update

June 21, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Last Friday I met with Gary Turner, UK CEO of Xero for a breakfast catch up on the company, its progress, initiatives and the like. The meeting was opportune because it was almost a year ago to the week when Gary was announced as Hamish Edwards successor. At the time I remember Gary grinning from [...]

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Microsoft in the UK: cautiously optimistic

November 24, 2008 General

Last week I attended Microsoft’s European Convergence conference. Given the state of the EU economies, it was surprisingly busy. According to the UK reps, they’d fulfilled 90% of their anticipated attendee target. What was more surprising is that at least one Microsoft person is quietly confident that the software market is not going to be [...]

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