by Curt Franklin

Test Center Tracker: Competition Rules

analysis
Dec 4, 20071 min

There's new competition, the word on subscription, and a bright new condition in Vista-land as we dive into a bunch of bloggy goodness in today's Test Center Daily. More CRM: Ahh, competition. That's what Microsoft is hoping to give Salesforce.com with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, the software as a service that gets launched later this month. Microsoft has a hosted-service version that shares virtually all the fe

There’s new competition, the word on subscription, and a bright new condition in Vista-land as we dive into a bunch of bloggy goodness in today’s Test Center Daily.

More CRM: Ahh, competition. That’s what Microsoft is hoping to give Salesforce.com with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, the software as a service that gets launched later this month. Microsoft has a hosted-service version that shares virtually all the features of the software edition, and Sean Gallagher has the story on both.

A Strong Subscription: One of the on-going questions in the open-source software market is how, precisely, companies can thrive while doing business within it. Savio Rodrigues spotlights one model and talks about the critical differences between a software subscription and a service subscription to both customers and vendors.

Common Sense Reigns: It seems that all Vista users have another strong reason to get ready for SP1: The WGA “kill switch” goes away. Randall Kennedy’s Enterprise Desktop talks about just how good that is, and provides an update on a desktop benchmark challenge