The award for best repeated use of the word eviscerate goes
to... Stewart McKie for his post
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"Green" is a Smokescreen. Snippet:
The portfolio of software assets that Microsoft acquired and
assembled
into Microsoft Business Solutions (including Axapta, FRx, Great
Plains, MS
CRM, Navision, and Solomon) are experiencing a slow evisceration.
It's the
kind of process that only Microsoft, with its deep cash reserves and
'long
game' approach to the market, could stomach. In order to understand
why
Microsoft would disembowel these assets, it helps to understand the
dynamics
of today's ERP market.
(damn creepy writing, man.)
The main point I take out of this article is that Microsoft's business
solutions (curious acquisitions that haven't paid off except for buying a
customer base) are going to be slowly eviscerated (and served with
fava
beans and a nice Chianti, I guess) in favor of moving all of those
solutions
over to an Office System platform.
Making Office a platform is a done deal and seems to be the chosen
evolutionary path of the group, end-user features be damned. I hope there's
a
level of platform indirection here because otherwise customers and partners
are
going to find themselves so incredibly tightly coupled with a particular
release
of Office System (along with its quirks and bugs) that there is
absolutely positively no way they'll ever upgrade either the Office or the
OS.
Dodo?
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