A Software Insiders Point of View

So it’s that time of year for holiday cheer and pundits to tempt fate and pontificate.  Here are some very very draft predictions for 2009 in order of most likely to least likely to pan out:
End user predictions

Heavy discounting continues for new license. Discounts include non-monetary concessions such as training, implementation, integration, and other [...]

Recent positive earnings announcements from SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, Business Objects, Agresso, and Epicor signal that the enterprise software market remains quite healthy. Despite doomsayer analyses that talk about the slowing economy, high single to double digit growth in license revenue demonstrate the success of recent initiatives to capture new industries and market segments (e.g. SME [...]