Good to see you guys. I'll be back when I can.

Everyone, thanks for being with us today!

I will & you're forgiven <g>
(Really good to see you; come back again some time)

@MArta- That is a current ESPN ad. Check it out. It is hilarious.

Shame on you - that's terrible <g>

Thanks Curt and Jessica. Nice to hear you guys again.

Before he goes off and sells his "Papicicles." :)

I've been pleased to see David Ortiz have a very nice farewell season.

@MArta- As long as the Orioles keep winning, I will be. :)

@Dave: Are you enjoying the MLB season?

I wish my lunch had been made to be deployed in the cloud. :)

On the other hand, vendor lock-in for on premises isn't much better. You may have already paid, but switching software in an on-premises environment can take even longer than switching in SaaS.

Well, I guess that is still vendor lock-in, but not just around pricing.

Not only do you have vendor lock-in, but what happens if your vendor goes under or gets bought by someone you don't want to do business with?

On a pure user experience point of view though, I have to say most SaaS software was not satisfying to me until maybe last year? Maybe this year? Between connection, latency, availability, and functionality, it really wasn't a good experience until recently in my opinion.

@Dave: I just thought the same thing!

Oh, Jessica, I hope you don't do that with flash. :)

I suspect that just when everyone is running everything on the cloud we will have turned to some future thing. Maybe we'll call it the quantum flow or something. :)

Hi Charlie. Good to see you as well. I wonder if they waited for personal reasons. Since many of the core Netsuite people are former ORacle folks and Oracle was a big investor from the beginning, it may be a simple courtesy to let them get as big as they wanted before it happened.

Oracle acquired NetSuite, something that many people had expected them to do for the last 3 years. (Hello, David, good to see you.)

The purchase of Netsuite

To waht "it" are you referring? (I got distracted :-)

I would assume some rebranding, but otherwise not major issues.

The biggest surprise might be how long it took to happen.

I could go for a philly soft pretzel right now.

We'll take what we can get <g>

I won't mention throwing batteries at Santa Claus. :)

Doing well. Wish I could drop by here more often.

Mr. Wagner! How are you?

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