Hasso Plattner of SAP and Marc Benioff of salesforce.com squared off at the Churchill Club. And they focused in on each other's platforms.
Why are two of the leaders in business applications not discussing how their software will transform business processes? In healthcare, banking, shopping? Where is the excitement of how location aware technologies are changing business? What uses do they see for businesses with the iPhone and other mobile devices?
It is depressing to see two enterprise application leaders focus on platforms and architectures - tools to help others build applications when they are paid to deliver business applications.
Time to ask again "Whatever happened to "packaged applications"?"
