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• Concerns of escalating, uncontrollable costs of proprietary ERP solutions has caused Higher Education excutives (CEOs and CFOs) to become deeply involved in the evaluation and selection of expensive mission-critical business solutions. For open source enterprise solutions to be considered as viable alternatives, they need to pass all the same tests as proprietary applications.
  
  Open source community developers exchange information with each other but don't do a good job of communicating with the ultimate customer (institutional executives).That means CIOs have to learn how to communicate effectively with the excutives and explain the benefits of OS solutions --- something that does not happen today!
  
  Most importantly, CIOs aren't giving the executives what they are seeking. These involved executives want more than a review or highlighting of technical and functional features (such as openness and customization). College and university executives are seeking a concise, jargon-free, factual analysis of the business and financial value proposition in the form of a White Paper.
  
  Open source application projects operate under the illusion that sales and marketing are unneccessary functions and as way to reduce costs -- then they wonder why adoption rates are slow? In reply to: "Universities spar over open-source benefits"

  November 5, 2008

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• OfficeLive not fixed -- from a victim
  Microsoft Office Live problems are not resolved -- take it from a victim who lost his website (still can't access it) and can't get a response from Microsoft -- the Help service just send you to "online form hell." After a day of utter frustration, I can't get any helf from MS -- btw, there is no telephone customer service when online help fails -- Screeeeeech!!! In reply to: "Microsoft says Live log-in problem resolved"

  February 27, 2008

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• Looks like a positive first step
  Any time an ISV decides to open source application level code available, it as a positive step. Misys has probably come to the conclusion that open source and open standards are the best way to address the integration pain points in Healthcare -- IMO best strategy in every industry sector.
  
  Open source is more than just code but by announcing the open sourcing of their Connect product, it might be the best first step for Misys to approach in building and/or joining a community? In reply to: "Misys aims to open source healthcare, but forgets the source"

  October 25, 2007

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• MS borrows an idea
  The following is quote in an article from John Rymer, an analyst at Forrester Research -- "It's the classic Microsoft approach, where they come in 10 years after the fact in work flow and enterprise content management and they commoditize it. They don't invent things--they popularize them."
  
  Rymer probably should have added that MS "borrows" the ideas of others. What MS is doing in Vista -- i.e., MS Office as an workflow and application development platform -- is what Nobilis (www.nobilis.com) has been doing for years with Processwriter.
  
  One of MS's end games is add functionality to Office so that customers will want (or need) to upgrade. Customers have been slow to upgrade or switch to Open Office because they are comfortable with limited ******** of Office. If competitors in the application space -- for example Intuit -- offered support for current versions of Excel as a development platform using a tool like Processwriter, then one big reason to upgrade to Vista would be negated.

  September 15, 2005

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• MS borrows an idea
  The following is quote in an article from John Rymer, an analyst at Forrester Research -- "It's the classic Microsoft approach, where they come in 10 years after the fact in work flow and enterprise content management and they commoditize it. They don't invent things--they popularize them."
  
  Rymer probably should have added that MS "borrows" the ideas of others. What MS is doing in Vista -- i.e., MS Office as an workflow and application development platform -- is what Nobilis (www.nobilis.com) has been doing for years with Processwriter.
  
  One of MS's end games is add functionality to Office so that customers will want (or need) to upgrade. Customers have been slow to upgrade or switch to Open Office because they are comfortable with limited ******** of Office. If competitors in the application space -- for example Intuit -- offered support for current versions of Excel as a development platform using a tool like Processwriter, then one big reason to upgrade to Vista would be negated.

  September 15, 2005

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