October 2005 - Posts

• Final Morning Post from Siebel User World

  They are basically doing customers stories at this point. Check back later today. I'll post a recap of what happened and any other newsworthy events that happens throughout the day. Read More... Posted Monday, October 17, 2005 10:09 AM by Eddie Amos | 0 Comments

• Siebel Systems Introduces Industry’s First Product to Dramatically Accelerate the Development of Customized CRM Applications

  Here is the official announcement about Nexus. We are will be demoing the .NET version with Accenture later today. The .NET version of Nexus will provide our users with great flexibility in terms of building leading edge applications. http://www.siebel.com/news-events/press_releases/2005/051017_customizedcrm.shtm Read More... Posted Monday, October 17, 2005 10:03 AM by Eddie Amos | 5 Comments

• Siebel Component Workbench - Microsoft Office

  Bruce just announced the Siebel Component Workbench. He said Siebel will start rolling out the technology this quarter. He talked about how the components can be used to create composite applications. He just said on stage how the UI was evolving and Read More... Posted Monday, October 17, 2005 9:56 AM by Eddie Amos | 0 Comments

• News from Siebel's User World - Microsoft and Siebel Systems Announce Availability of Siebel Component Assembly for Microsoft .NET

  BOSTON, Oct. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today at Siebel CustomerWorld 2005, Microsoft Corp. MSFT and Siebel Systems Inc. SEBL announced availability of the Siebel Component Assembly for Microsoft(R) .NET. This offering enables customers to simplify Read More... Posted Monday, October 17, 2005 9:43 AM by Eddie Amos | 0 Comments

• Bruce Cleveland's Keynote at Siebel's Customer World

  Bruce Cleveland is on stage. He asked for a show of hands of how many people are here for the 1st time. About 50% of the audience raised they hands. Bruce is having a little problem with his slides. Here comes the tech on stage to fix the problem. Don’t Read More... Posted Monday, October 17, 2005 9:37 AM by Eddie Amos | 0 Comments

• George Shaheen's Keynote at Siebel's Customer World

  I would guess that there are about 1,800 people in the keynote this morning. I think this is the first conference that I have ever attended where 90% of the people are wearing suits (:-}). George Shaheen is on stage talking about building customer value. Read More... Posted Monday, October 17, 2005 9:06 AM by Eddie Amos | 2 Comments

• Siebel's User Week - Keynote

  The Microsoft crew is in full force this morning at Siebel Customer World. The keynote is just about to get underway. Last night we had a special dinner for several of our key customers that run their Siebel application on Windows. We heard some pretty Read More... Posted Monday, October 17, 2005 8:40 AM by Eddie Amos | 0 Comments

• Siebel's User Week

  I'll be blogging from Siebel's User Week in Boston Monday and Tuesday. Check back throughout the day to see what's being discussed. Read More... Posted Sunday, October 16, 2005 6:23 PM by Eddie Amos | 0 Comments

• I’m looking for exceptional technical talent to join the ISV team

  Are you a techno-minded visionary with a passion for seeing possibilities and making it happen? Come join the .NET Platform Strategy Group in the space between the possible and the future influencing platform decisions and architectural adoption with Read More... Posted Sunday, October 09, 2005 8:26 PM by Eddie Amos | 1 Comments

• eWeek

  There are a couple of interesting articles in eWeek today that are relevant to the Microsoft Partner Community. 1) UGS Sets Its Sights on the Midmarket – UGS is one of the partners my group supports. Their Teamcenter Express Product is a powerful example Read More... Posted Friday, October 07, 2005 12:34 PM by Eddie Amos | 1 Comments

• Good Interview with "The Scobleizer" of Channel 9

  http://isvchalktalk.com/archive/2005/10/03/74.aspx Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 04, 2005 2:23 AM by Eddie Amos | 0 Comments

• Strange Bedfellows – The iSeries & .NET

  Last year we announced the formation of the Midrange Alliance Program for the AS/400 community. Why you might ask? Simple - .NET. If you are a RPG programmer the last thing you want to do is learn how to program in JAVA (the path IBM was talking to their Read More... Posted Monday, October 03, 2005 9:56 PM by Eddie Amos | 0 Comments

• J + N (JAVA + .NET)

  Checkout Doc Holladay’s interview with Kevin Wittkopf about Microsoft's J+N program (Java plus .Net.). http://isvchalktalk.com/archive/2005/09/28/66.aspx . Read More... Posted Monday, October 03, 2005 2:02 AM by Eddie Amos | 0 Comments

• .NET Partner Advisor Council (PAC)

  I’m sitting here working on the final agenda for the .NET Partner Advisor Council (PAC) meetings that will be held later this month. There is SOOOOOOOOOOO much information to cover this time. I feel like I need to do a complete recap of the PDC but will Read More... Posted Monday, October 03, 2005 1:55 AM by Eddie Amos | 0 Comments

• PARTNERS, PARTNERS, PARTNERS

  I love the Steve Ballmer Channel 9 interview when he gets that crazed look in his eyes, starts rubbing his hands together and says “it all starts with developers, developers, developers.” That how I feel about my job “it’s all about partners, partners, Read More... Posted Monday, October 03, 2005 1:02 AM by Eddie Amos | 1 Comments