Archive for July, 2009
Why Sage may never get saas
Dennis Howlett has made an interesting post regarding the rapid release and the subsequent silent demise of Sage’s own Software as a Service (Saas) offering which you can read about in full here Why Sage may never get saas
Obviously Sage have a large legacy in the Line 50 market with some users having been happy users for years so what do you do to embrace the Internet and provide a SaaS solution? Of course the SaaS players will say the web is the future and all software will go this way. Ardent fans of Line 50 and those concerned about potential security issues still favour the traditional windows approach. The above article mentions lack of R&D funding but my thinking is whilst a product still sells commercially its hard to plough money into a new offering. No more is this evident than in the Sage Line 500/Sage 1000 products. Architecturally and user interface wise it is a disaster. Functionality wise it offers much. Bottom line is both those products still sell into the high end market-space making a radical re-write low down on the list and commercially expensive!
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Category: Sage 1000, Sage 200, Sage 50, Sage Line 500
Amazon UK selling pirated software
OK, so I don’t want this blog to become a soap-box for me to rant from, and I try and provide information which is useful and specific to the industry. However this has really angered me where Amazon UK’s so called ‘buyer guarantee’ isn’t what it appears. Three weeks ago I purchased some Adobe software from an Amazon UK marketplace seller. I strongly suspect due to the poor quality of the packagaing that the item is in fact counterfeit. Long story short rather than Amazon ‘protecting’ me and allowing me to return the item for a refund, I have to prove its counterfeit before any further action can be taken? Mind boggling! And there was me thinking that their buyer guarantee (along with the sale of goods act and the distance selling act) would enable a swift and painless refund!
Buyer beware!
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