Saas: Enterprise Software Vendors Are Still Denying Reality

Cormac Foster, ReadWriteWeb
Wed, 12/12/2012 - 5:00am

As Silicon Valley girds for $1 trillion wealth transfer from the enterprise software incumbents to nimble upstarts, it makes sense to look how the entrenched players are responding the challenge. While some are buying up the competition while they still can or building their own startup-like operations (praying they won't cannibalize their main businesses), others are hiding their heads in the sand.

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