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Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad by mbesto on Thursday August 18, 2011 @04:12PM (#2900890)
He's awful. He got quietly shuffled out of SAP after 18 months as CEO. If you're trying to innovate in a technology company, he's definitely not the person to do so.

I was having a conversation with a friend of mine who works for SAP and apparently he has a very established network of large enterprise companies who would buy his ERP software if he told them to buy it. This is how enterprise software works by the way - its not by value but by the shake of a hand. The question is what software do they have to sell? Sure they bought Autonomy, but that's only a small piece of the pie.

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Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad by diogenescynic on Thursday August 18, 2011 @04:23PM (#2900932)
Because the person buying the software isn't the person using the software.
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Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad by chintan on Thursday August 18, 2011 @05:07PM (#2901087)
This one line sums up all the issues of the Enterprise and Health care information technology and everything that is broken about it.

Startupreneurs who are looking to white-label to enterprise, STOP. dont waste your time.

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Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad by rikthevik on Thursday August 18, 2011 @05:17PM (#2901123)
I'm developing software for a health organization in Canada, and you should see the reactions I get from users when they realize that I listened to their concerns and tailored the software to them. I feel like Santa at Christmas.
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Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad by SandB0x on Thursday August 18, 2011 @08:03PM (#2901653)
And the person writing the software never uses it either. The definitive recipe for shitty enterprise apps the world over.
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Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad by mmahemoff on Friday August 19, 2011 @12:02AM (#2902180)
And hardly anyone ever sees it in action, so it's harder and costlier to attract talented developers.
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Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad by krupan on Friday August 19, 2011 @03:36PM (#2904575)
"The question is what software do they have to sell?"

A few years ago, under Mark Hurd, they bought EDS and Mercury for that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Interactive

Never heard of their software? Be glad.

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