Comments on: Free as in Platform

By: irolatRomourl

irolatRomourl — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:22:33 +0000

Нормуль, читать можно.

By: Graciela Ramsey

Graciela Ramsey — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:56:43 +0000

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By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:31:40 +0000

The big issue with the platforms and adoption in the corporate environment will be security and data privacy. I’m with a mid-size company and we offer some web portals and Saas type apps, but we’re stuck running through SAS70 reviews, security audits from each client, etc. Can these platform providers provide us that level? Will they answer my client’s questions about their SAS70 audits?…

By: Robert W. Anderson

Robert W. Anderson — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:13:42 +0000

Note to those trying to “help” Steve with his writing:

1. Commenting on Steve’s writing style has jumped the shark. It became passe last century.
2. Steve Gillmor has been writing about IT since before a lot of you were born. His style is working.
3. You are not adding any value. None.

@mimi: either you need a new CIO or you have misjudged him/her.

Pre-emptive note to self: engaging with trolls isn’t adding any value either.

By: Steven

Steven — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:50:07 +0000

I like the length the more is better if you are working in this sphere. This app they demo looks so much like salesforce’s ui that to me it turns me off to even considering using their service.

By: mimi

mimi — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:45:47 +0000

@rbk – that is what salesforce.com is – over 80% of their customers have less than 20 users. The other good (better/cheaper) alternative is Oracle’s Siebel OnDemand.

Re: the length of the article, that is not so much of an issue. The issue is lack of clarity. Bear in mind that the readers of an enterprise blog are often mgt types from corporate IT departments, so clarity is king. Get to the point quickly. Bullet points are your friend.

I would have liked to forward this article to my manager (CIO) as we are looking into salesforce.com. As it is written, I’d need to rewrite the whole thing in order to do this.

By: DNS ATTACK

DNS ATTACK — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:35:39 +0000

I consider myself as well read as anyone else, but with the length of these posts you have to just skip to the videos instead

By: anthropocentric

anthropocentric — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:07:56 +0000

Too long, not enough images and links throughout the article, making it seem heavy.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:42:54 +0000

I agree with Paul. I enjoyed that initial post. But my gosh that was fast and furious.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:38:08 +0000

I’m very excited about TechCrunchIT, but I hope the length of this piece isn’t a sign of what’s to come.

Keep ‘em short and sweet!

By: rbk

rbk — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:28:34 +0000

What about a CRM for small businesses in this new web2.0 social networking era to keep them better connected? That would be nice for the almost 6million small businesses in the USA.

Thanks for the article Steve, Yay techCrunchIT! :)