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smellyTopic: Chinadotcom and VCSY
'Up until November of 2005...' ??????
There's that December 2005 milepost again. CDC stops using Ross Systems stuff (which had been sold in 2001-2002 to VCSY. of which VCSY owned 100% by Gyselen/Arglen settlement by 1Q 2003) right around the time IBM, Microsoft and SAP shut down UDDI and VCSY came back to life after pinks sheets. There's a whole lot swirling around that one little point in time, isn't there?
One thing we might consider here (and of course you understand this is a speculation), I seem to recall, this was right before Chinadotcom tried to acquire Onyx in a hostile takeover. It was such a surprise and seemed so desperately hostile, even analysts were taken aback. I would speculate Onyx had the goods as far as middleware for integration systems and applications and they had it from around 1994 according to some records we saw at PH.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=cdc+%2B+onyx&btnG=Google+Search
But Onyx rebuffed CDC with great prejudice and was acquired by someone else in 2006.
But by next summer things had seemed to calm down and CDC and Microsoft and somebody named 360 were getting it together to build CDC's new on-demand web software services for their CRM. One can imagine, if any of that were successful, CDC customers would be crying out for web-based capabilities especially in their human resources line... whatever that may be.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=cdc+%2B+saas&btnG=Search
So, if CRM by CDC via Microsoft and 360 were successful, one would expect CDC to be putting that stuff in every piece of software they have.
If they are still using VCSY/NOW Solutions software, it means their attempts at on-demand SaaS were not successful (as will typically be predicted in .Net/Java systems due to programming complexity and coupling/transaction demands) they would be forced by their market to return to something that worked: NOW Solutions software... which they would be using counter to copyright and intellectual property laws. I think that may also violate a number of anti-competition laws and civil rights and who knows what else is in those law books.
Hmmm. Could this game be getting bigger and hotter as we speak? The trial will tell us much.
