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I think it goes something like this: “’tis  better to have loved and lost, or to never have loved at all?”

To put a twist on it a bit, “is it better to have competed and lost, or never to have competed?”  That is the question.

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Yesterday, Lawson released their fourth-quarter and fiscal year 2008.  To just read Lawson’s press release (http://www.lawson.com/wcw.nsf/pub/new_3CABF3), you can see that (according to Lawson, at least) everything’s rosy:

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Can’t you just envision this as being a perfect line of Alice Kramden dialogue from an episode of The Honeymooners?   Ralph is contriving some plan with Norton, purporting to be “the expert” on whatever scheme is being cooked up.  And in steps clear-headed Alice, to utter the deflating question that brings it all back into perspective, “Oh, so now you’re an expert, huh?”

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For several years now, I’ve been telling Lawson (and anyone else who’s been listening…) that Microsoft–not SAP and not Oracle–is the competitor that Lawson needs to watch out for:

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A recent CIO magazine article (http://www.cio.com/article/187350/Hot_Jobs_Applications_Architect/1) made me think about some of the roles I fill for my clients.

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Does anyone else think that when you install a Lawson application, install locations should be remembered for future installs? 

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As they say, “wonders never cease”, or something like that.

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I’ve never been a fan of complicated scripting, whether it’s shell scripts, Perl, python, or whatever.  The reason I don’t like it is because it’s usually written by developers who think they’re being “clever”, when what they are doing is costing their organizations money down the line, since their “solution” will need to be scrapped when no one can understand it. 

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According to this recent article (http://www.informationweek.com/news/services/saas/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207403609), it seems that SAP’s ambitious plan for offering software-as-a-service (SaaS) to the mid-market was just a wee bit too ambitious:

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I know, I know.  I pick on Lawson Support too much.  Keep reading →