LawsonGuru Blog

Thought-Provoking Commentary for the Lawson Software Community

Lawson On The Block?


For years we’ve heard the rumors.  IBM is going to buy Lawson.  Oracle is going to buy Lawson.  HP is going to buy Lawson.

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In Whom Do You Trust?


For larger enterprise applications, you typically sign (and pay for) an annual maintenance agreement covering day-to-day support and/or updates.  Or do you?

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Piling It On: This Time It’s Apple


I was going to leave well enough alone.  I’m not an Apple user, and not at all affected by the recent flap over the iPhone4 antenna problems.  But then I saw this headline:

Fix iPhone ‘Death Grip’ For Free, Urges Senator

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Slowing Down to Speed Up


I read an interesting article recently in Harvard Business Review: http://hbr.org/2010/04/the-acceleration-trap/

In case you haven’t noticed, the world is spinning faster–at least it often seems that way. 

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The Icahn Effect


You’ve no doubt heard the news: Carl Icahn has “taken a stake” in Lawson Software (NASDAQ:LWSN).

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Riding the Upgrade Crazy Train


You’re probably still dizzy, having just finished your Time Accrual to Absence Management upgrade.  And it doesn’t seem that long ago that we went through that frenetic cycle of LSF9 and 9.0 Apps upgrades.  Well, get ready folks–there’s more to come, with no foreseeable end in sight. 

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Checkbox Computing


One of the people I pay attention to in the tech world is John C. Dvorak. While he’s not always right, he does provoke our thought process when it comes to technology.

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What Matters Now


Seth Godin is the EF Hutton  for our era.  When he speaks, I certainly listen—and you should as well.

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Cloudy with a Chance of Lawson?

What’s Wrong With This Picture?


No, this post has nothing to do with Lawson.  Except that Lawson S3 supported databases include both Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. 

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