"This was an exceptional quarter, combining solid enterprise growth and continued strong consumer demand for Office 2010, Windows 7, and Xbox 360 consoles and games," said Peter Klein, chief financial officer at Microsoft.
I built a solid enterprise software company and was no spring chicken fresh out of Stanford with an MBA or CS degree in tow.
The company has a solid Enterprise brand, no doubt, but their users aren't happy with the experience, nor are they drawn in by the story that Microsoft has been telling.
Yammer, the San Francisco startup that offers a solid enterprise-grade microsharing and realtime communications service, is expanding its executive team after successfully closing a Series B funding round to the tune of $10 million earlier this month.
So perhaps Google is slowly but surely creating a solid enterprise plan-the three areas above seem to show that Google has a focus and direction where they are taking Google Apps, App Engine and enterprise class technologies that they acquire and integrate.
Peter Klein, chief financial officer at Microsoft said in a statement: "This was an exceptional quarter, combining solid enterprise growth and continued strong consumer demand for Office 2010, Windows 7, and Xbox 360 consoles and games…Our ability to grow revenue while continuing to control costs allowed us to deliver another quarter of year-over-year margin expansion".
One Month, the learning platform that promises a solid, enterprise-based education in one month or less, has today announced the close of an additional $1.9 million in seed funding, co-led by existing investor Idea Bulb Ventures and new investor Arena Ventures.
But fast-moving startups such as Yammer could easily use a solid enterprise base to leapfrog the open source players and challenge Twitter in bringing developer resources to bear in the short term while the market is still susceptible to momentum plays.
Under its new leadership, Foursquare could build a solid enterprise business that is just ripe enough for a company in need of its location intelligence — say Salesforce — to pluck for a choice sum when its runway runs out of asphalt and into the weeds.
There has been some doubt lurking in the trenches about whether Google has a solid, organized enterprise strategy.
"It's coming from solid-core enterprise customers.
