Nickname: Mr. Pink

Review: The SAP go-to-market strategy is sound. SAS is attractive to those companies who want to deploy rapidly, apply capital in other areas with the option of bringing it in house at a later date. I wonder how easily SAP's migration from hosted to boxed will be? Sage CRM offers both hosted and boxed deployments with a 2-hour migration from hosted inhouse, including all data, security, territory and workflow. Beat that SAP!

Date reviewed: Jun 26, 2006 4:03 AM

Nickname: Chris Roon

Review: Salesforce.com clearly has a disruptive model. SAP and Oracle will find out just like Siebel did. No executive in a perpetual license business that is publicly traded can promote on demand licensing without harming their stock price. Ratible revenue recognition of a 3 year contract is terrible short term stock performance. Finally, Oracle Ondemand requires you purchase a perpetual license up front. Hardly on demand.

Date reviewed: Feb 7, 2006 2:39 AM

Nickname: Lord Garold

Review: You will all lose to Microsoft anyway!

Date reviewed: Feb 5, 2006 5:12 PM

Nickname: Post-Softerist

Review: SOA is Web 2.0 for Intranet. Web 2.0 is SOA for the Internet. SalesForce and Shai Agassi are moving to Web 3.0 or SOA 2.0: Semantic Oriented Architecture.

Date reviewed: Feb 4, 2006 7:00 PM

Nickname: Samir D

Review: Interesting to note that SAP is offering On Demand as well. This is a powerful message to its customers that it can be flexible to accomodate their immediate needs with the fall back option of getting CRM behind their firewall at a later date.

Date reviewed: Feb 3, 2006 6:04 PM