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	<title>Cuothe IT Criticism &#38; Curmudgeonery</title>
	<link>http://cuothe.pundit.ca</link>
	<description>Adam Cuothe's column cut's through IT industry analysis and PR</description>
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		<title>Vendors: Your Sites are Worthless</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I feel obliged to lend my crusty shell to another blogger this morning. Mr. Rahal just penned a piece taking vendors to task for what really amounts to the well-recognized phenomenon of uncreative marketing dronespeak.
I like that he doesn&#8217;t just point out flaws but explains the problems succinctly and offers alternative approaches. Everyone developing Web [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cuothe.pundit.ca/2009/05/20/vendors-your-sites-are-worthless/</link>
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		<title>Sink the Thought Leadership</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thought leadership has dropped an astonishing 14% in the first four months of 2008. The auspicious pollen of the critomaeyar flower (blooming first in the northern hemisphere and second in the southern) was my first indication that 2008 would not maintain the steady output of the quality of thought leadership we witnessed during the past [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cuothe.pundit.ca/2008/05/24/sink-the-thought-leadership/</link>
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		<title>Do Analysts Scream from Synthetic Feats?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Will it hurt?&#8221; They might ask. When it hurts enough, maybe someone will start digging an analyst firm graveyard site. ;-)
A few analyst firms recently got gobbled up. Notably, Yankee Group bought Trendsmedia, which produces (among other things) research on broadband and wifi, err wimax emerging doodling. The other one I note is the Harte-Hanks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cuothe.pundit.ca/2006/09/22/do-analysts-scream-from-synthetic-feats/</link>
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		<title>A Story of Assuaged SSA Alacrity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There she was, SSA Global had gathered up her armful of flowers, tieing a pretty bow around the middle. She was matched in youthful exuberence by the ribbon that gripped her middle-aged pony tail. All the pretty flowers in her collection, bringing joy (one hoped) to customers buzzing toward the fold. There were just so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cuothe.pundit.ca/2006/08/06/a-story-of-assuaged-ssa-alacrity/</link>
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		<title>Microsoft&#8217;s Vision Goes ProClarity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How many puns on vision can a company named ProClarity make? Today Microsoft bought the ProClarity, hoping to turn its BI offering into something competitive with friends Hyperion, Cognos, etc. The first thing I noticed in the press release was the following comment from Bob Lokken who is (was) the CEO of ProClarity.
&#8220;Our focus at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cuothe.pundit.ca/2006/04/04/microsofts-vision-goes-proclarity/</link>
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		<title>Peregrine (ing) all the way to the Bank, ahem, HP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Being Bought isn't all Bad. Peregrine gives it up to HP and SOX it to CA]]></description>
		<link>http://cuothe.pundit.ca/2006/01/05/peregrine-ing-all-the-way-to-the-bank-ahem-hp/</link>
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		<title>Internet Use Leads Clients to the Enemy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Accenture's vague news about Internet use and good old-fashioned CRM leads to questions about what a service provider is.]]></description>
		<link>http://cuothe.pundit.ca/2005/12/22/internet-use-leads-clients-to-the-enemy/</link>
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		<title>TIBCO&#8217;s Bulging PortalPotty Release&#8211;Wait Your Turn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TIBCO, with its SOA, business process menagerie, and portal building stronghold, says it unleashing a multitude of siloes.]]></description>
		<link>http://cuothe.pundit.ca/2005/12/14/wait-your-turn-with-tibcos-bulging-portalpotty-release/</link>
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		<title>Coming up THE GNX(t) ACRONYM AGENTRICS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From GNX and WWRE come a merged Agentrics, ta-da, dots and "G"s for SUPPLY CHAIN mirth in the dead of winter.]]></description>
		<link>http://cuothe.pundit.ca/2005/12/13/coming-up-the-gnxt-acronym-agentrics/</link>
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		<title>God&#8217;s Accounting System</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alabama enterprise accounting vendor serves God]]></description>
		<link>http://cuothe.pundit.ca/2005/11/17/gods-accounting-system/</link>
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		<title>Why re CA ll the Past?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CA wants to rebrand itself without being sleazy. CEO is buzzed and doesn't want to layoff anymore executives.]]></description>
		<link>http://cuothe.pundit.ca/2005/11/16/why-recall-the-past/</link>
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		<title>The Agassi Posture&#8211;SAP Proudly Passes into the Ages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SAP makes noise about addressing all the specialized multitudes with its "new" sounding open access, but it's just lip service as Shai Agassi continues to prove.]]></description>
		<link>http://cuothe.pundit.ca/2005/11/11/the-agassi-posture-sap-proudly-passes-into-the-ages/</link>
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		<title>Geac Swallowed by the Golden Gate (Infor)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Infor via Golden Gate Capital to Buy Much of Geac--ERP Vendors Continue to Rearrange Themselves]]></description>
		<link>http://cuothe.pundit.ca/2005/11/07/geac-swallowed-by-the-golden-gate-infor/</link>
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		<title>Buying a Record of Reality&#8211;Corporate Content Tyrants Ready to Abuse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Parasitic organizations like the MPAA want the US to enforce restrictions on analog reality... you'll have to buy the rights to it.]]></description>
		<link>http://cuothe.pundit.ca/2005/11/04/buying-a-record-of-reality-corporate-content-tyrants-ready-to-abuse/</link>
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		<title>Sneak On! The Trojan USB Horse Technoia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CIO Stats on Corporate Paranoia and the Employee Gadget]]></description>
		<link>http://cuothe.pundit.ca/2005/11/04/sneak-on-the-trojan-usb-horse-technoia/</link>
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		<title>The Long Schwanz for SAP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SAP's Agassi doublespeaks SAP's path to a long tail of relevence]]></description>
		<link>http://cuothe.pundit.ca/2005/10/29/the-long-schwanz-for-sap/</link>
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		<title>Forrester Pins the Tail on the Millenials</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Forrester motions it will interact with millenials]]></description>
		<link>http://cuothe.pundit.ca/2005/10/26/forrester-pins-the-tail-on-the-millenials/</link>
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		<title>Do not Pass Unica, Go Directly to the DMA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yuchun Lee of bigass EMM player, Unica, joins the DMA board of directors]]></description>
		<link>http://cuothe.pundit.ca/2005/10/19/do-not-pass-unica-go-directly-to-the-dma/</link>
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		<title>Google Gazes at Sun Dribble, where&#8217;s the Sizzle?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The overly hyped Google/Sun announcement fizzles on content and merits little recognition]]></description>
		<link>http://cuothe.pundit.ca/2005/10/05/google-gazes-at-sun-dribble-wheres-the-sizzle/</link>
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		<title>The Crummy Awards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sage at the awards, CRM moves are not necessarily wise nor special, but let them have a Crummy anyway.]]></description>
		<link>http://cuothe.pundit.ca/2005/09/27/the-crummy-awards/</link>
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		<title>Spring Forward Springdoo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Springdoo launches voice e-mail service--why?]]></description>
		<link>http://cuothe.pundit.ca/2005/09/24/spring-forward-springdoo/</link>
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		<title>Deploy the Hummingbird ECM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[US Missile Defense Agency gets Hummingbird Enterprise for doc management]]></description>
		<link>http://cuothe.pundit.ca/2005/09/15/deploy-the-hummingbird-ecm/</link>
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		<title>How Doth Thou Love Oracle, Mr. Siebel?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wacky Siebel Doublespeaks Customers]]></description>
		<link>http://cuothe.pundit.ca/2005/09/14/how-doth-thou-love-oracle-mr-siebel/</link>
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