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		<title>A Bittersweet Ending</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2011/04/26/a-bittersweet-ending/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well folks, it&#8217;s a deal: Lawson has agreed to Infor&#8217;s buyout offer. After decades of work by countless employees, numerous makeovers and new releases, the bursting of the dot-com bubble, several CEOs, and an IPO to boot, Lawson has agreed to itself be acquired. Some may say they&#8217;re throwing in the towel and giving in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&amp;blog=1858928&amp;post=515&amp;subd=lawsonguru&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cloudy with a Chance of Lawson?</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2009/11/18/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-lawson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found this recent Lawson press release announcing the hire of a new VP to be curious.  My initial thought was (seriously), what happened to Dean Hager? With economic-driven staffing reductions, and layoffs at Lawson and other software vendors, isn&#8217;t this just another top-heavy exec?  Then I started to peel back the layers, and it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&amp;blog=1858928&amp;post=366&amp;subd=lawsonguru&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CUE 09 Descends On San Diego</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2009/04/27/cue-09-descends-on-san-diego/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Lawson CUE was held in San Diego this past April, Lawson invited some software industry bloggers to attend the annual event.  I’ll let you read their reviews: Frank Scavo’s Enterprise Spectator Michael Krigsman’s IT Project Failures Ray Wang’s Software Insider’s Point of View Vinnie Mirchandani&#8217;s Deal Architect Unlike the LawsonGuru Blog, which targets you—the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&amp;blog=1858928&amp;post=274&amp;subd=lawsonguru&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do You Agree With Harry?</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2008/08/28/do-you-agree-with-harry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lawson&#8217;s CEO Harry Debes certainly isn&#8217;t afraid to speak his mind or express his feelings.  But Harry&#8217;s latest remarks deriding Software as a Service (SaaS) might just put him in the doghouse: &#8220;My prediction is that it&#8217;ll go the same way as the other two have gone&#8211;nowhere.&#8221; &#8220;People are stupid. History has shown it repeats [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&amp;blog=1858928&amp;post=189&amp;subd=lawsonguru&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LSWN: Your Full-Service Provider</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2008/07/11/lswn-your-full-service-provider/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting comment in the recent FY08 earnings conference call, made by CEO Harry Debes: &#8220;I think some of our competitors in the case of Microsoft delivers no services, in the case of SAP and Oracle deliver a lot less services. It’s a strategy of ours to in fact be intimately involved with our customer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&amp;blog=1858928&amp;post=208&amp;subd=lawsonguru&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LWSN: It&#8217;s Time (to Reinvest)</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2008/07/11/lwsn-its-time-to-reinvest/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2008/07/11/lwsn-its-time-to-reinvest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Lawson released their fourth-quarter and fiscal year 2008.  To just read Lawson&#8217;s press release (http://www.lawson.com/wcw.nsf/pub/new_3CABF3), you can see that (according to Lawson, at least) everything&#8217;s rosy: &#8220;Company posts more than $100 million increase in annual revenues&#8221;. But, you then comes the Wall Street spin, which is, frankly, amusing: I&#8217;ve highlighted some of these, just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&amp;blog=1858928&amp;post=115&amp;subd=lawsonguru&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LWSN and Dogfood ?!?</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2007/05/30/lwsn-and-dogfood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 12:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was copied on this email from a Lawson client, who was addressing their concerns to Lawson: We are getting conflicting information from Lawson on this subject.  1.  Is Concur a Lawson Partner? 2.  Is Lawson using Concur internally for Expense Reimbursement? 3.  Does Lawson plan to use Concur internally for Expense Reimbursement in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&amp;blog=1858928&amp;post=18&amp;subd=lawsonguru&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Thoughts on CUE 2007</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2007/03/08/my-thoughts-on-cue-2007/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2007/03/08/my-thoughts-on-cue-2007/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even though I didn’t attend Lawson CUE this year in San Diego, I did receive my usual eyewitness reports.  I also viewed the video feeds of keynotes and listened in on the executive/analyst briefings.  And, naturally, I do have my opinions. First though, let’s take a moment to digest this news item (see http://biz.yahoo.com/e/070306/lwsn8-k.html): Form [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&amp;blog=1858928&amp;post=23&amp;subd=lawsonguru&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CUE 06: &quot;9 on Your Mind?&quot;</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2006/04/15/cue-06-9-on-your-mind/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2006/04/15/cue-06-9-on-your-mind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Apr 2006 15:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even though I didn’t attend Lawson CUE this year in Orlando, I did get a number of eyewitness reports. I also viewed webcasts of the keynotes and listened in on a couple of the executive briefings. CUE ’06 officially got off to a rousing (and loud!) early start thanks to a marching drum corps. What [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&amp;blog=1858928&amp;post=32&amp;subd=lawsonguru&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lawson&#8217;s Good News</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2005/07/07/lawsons-good-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2005 15:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I listened in to the analyst conference call a couple of weeks ago when Lawson Software released their Q4 2005 Financials (to hear a replay see http://www.lawson.com/investor/index.shtml). These conference calls are always a hoot; there&#8217;s really any negatives shared in this way&#8211;it&#8217;s much easier for a company to issue a press release and not take [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&amp;blog=1858928&amp;post=41&amp;subd=lawsonguru&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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