Microsoft
Increasingly the thinking is “If you can post it on your site and everybody can access it, why pay an intermediary?” – but having Microsoft “endorse” this is a big push. Even more interesting when one remembers that Berkshire bought a competitor to PR News Wire in 2006, Business Wire. This is too much of a niche to use this as evidence of “the online risk” to publishers, since in this case the “product” is a commodity with no added, proprietary content and is usually sold as one of the services in a bundle that can include I.R. (Investor Relations) site management, event handling/ recording and other aspects of a company’s IR efforts.
Quite specific examples of the levers that move SAP, Oracle and Microsoft – also applicable to Totvs. The bottom line: bargain while you can. Very interesting to illustrate the power of maintenance in the software business.
