Anne Manes
Anne Manes
chickens harder hen
Once the chickens are out of the hen house, it's harder to get them back inside.
competence further gain hat marketing operating red sales selling team
It's questionable, though, how long it will take for the Red Hat sales and marketing team to gain competence in selling an application platform, which is much further 'up the stack' than the operating system.
breed business compete dying free hard stuff
The IDE business has been a dying breed for about 10 years. It's really hard to compete with free?especially when the free stuff is really good.
lacking market purchase
I've been berating the ESB market because it's lacking in governance. This purchase really addresses that for Sonic.
convinced feeling good proud themselves
BEA is feeling proud of themselves because they had a good year. But I'm not convinced they are out of (the) water.
company hang nobody pays reasonably remain remarkable survive trying
It's remarkable that they've been able to hang on and remain a reasonably sized company. They were not going to survive trying to be an IDE (integrated development environment) company because nobody pays for IDEs anymore.
biggest changed data fact forces learn model work
The fact that they changed the data model is my biggest concern. It forces us to learn something different. All the tooling you had to compile the old WSDL will not work anymore.