Response to our recent sponsor profile articles is quite active with the posting on services procurement garnering more than 20 comments.

As is our normal practice, I am more than pleased to share these comments with you starting with the feedback that was received from a supply chain professional in Panama regarding the August 20th post titled “The Web 2.0 Association: A Dynamic Engagement Between Stakeholders Sharing the Same Interests and Goals.

Be sure to look for reader comments in future posts.

From Lance, Global Logistics Specialist, Panama (Maersk Logistics)

Where it once did, the value gained from the traditional Association model can no longer compete for my attention. I need to collaborate bigger, faster, stronger – and at my convenience.

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Greg Wallace wrote:

Hi Jon,

I look forward to reading your stuff - sounds very comprehensive. I have an opinion (perhaps not as well-informed as it might be) on this question, and it is that yes, open source (and SaaS) are counter cyclical. My aim here is to raise awareness, stimulate debate and, hopefully, get enterprises to think hard before they cut a check for someridiculous amount of
money.

Specifically on the point of TCO, I really think the support ecosystem around open source has matured to where this no longer is an issue in reality, though it's indisputable that the perception that open source is free as in kitten persists. More work to be done here to educate the market, IMO.

Thanks!!

Greg

On 2/6/08 6:04 AM, Jon W. Hansen wrote:
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This is a subject which is of great interest to me personally as I have been tracking the transition of traditional software licensing models to the present day Software as a Service (SaaS) model since 1998 (my recent Ariba interview ...

Jyoti Jain wrote:

Hi Jon,
Thanks for the thought provoking article and yes I absolutely agree with the fact that even today many IT projects are finally shunned and are failures..but also at the same time with my 4 years of SAP experience with my current company and my current client, we have also seen that if we take an approach where the main objective is to have a clear process defined, then the ERP solution actually will wrk wonders.
the one thing that really screws up most of the projects is that someone raises a concern people discuss and then without any conclusion it is forgotten and at the end it comes back as a ten headed monster to haunt. What is actually needed is a centraised tool to log all the issues and then track all the issues right to the point of closures and agreement. I think that is the Key to any projects success.

On 2/6/08 10:01 AM, Jon W. Hansen wrote:
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The SAP question regarding emerging technology seems to be a popular subject. I am happy to share ...