Software as a service is something Microsoft wanted to pretend wasn't ever going to happen. -Bruce Richardson

 

Software as a service is something Microsoft wanted to pretend wasn't ever going to happen.


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Microsoft's biggest problem is its [sales] channel.

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Software as a service is something Microsoft wanted to pretend wasn't ever going to happen. The problem they have is that customers want it. Now more and more of the Microsoft franchise is being encroached upon, and not by a bunch of pimply kids like it was in the early Internet days, but by a company with a $100 billion market cap.

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They were mostly worried about Oracle (bilking) them on maintenance costs.

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Software as a service is something Microsoft wanted to pretend wasn't ever going to happen.

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It's like saying the operation was a success, but we still have to figure out what to do with the patient's third leg. With the merger, Oracle got operating efficiency, but you have to ask yourself, what else did they get, once the dust settles.

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