There was also an image of Microsoft's cloud leader. "I haven't learned his name yet," Nelson said. "Because that chair changes so often." He followed with "What discussion would be complete without SAP? They have given us so much material." That was accompanied by a large photo of SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott with a 2010 quote that NetSuite would see SAP's Business ByDesign coming at it like "a 90-mile-per-hour fast ball." ByD has been more like an infield pop fly (my term). He dismissed QAD as having been found in a cave in Spain (okay, my term again). And in what was likely a pretend after thought, Nelson quipped, "I forget Sage. But everybody forgets Sage," dismissing this month's statement by Guy Berruyer that he will retire by March as owing to the desire of the 63-year-old Sage CEO to ski The Alps.
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Maybe it was the hour delay in the SuiteWorld keynote, attributed to problems with the San Jose convention center system this week—press members with early seating stared at a convention-hall-sized projection of a black-and-white grid. But NetSuite CEO's Zach Nelson's leave-no-competitor-unbashed style seemed to have extra energy. There were visual aids; a photograph of Kirill Tatarinov, president of Microsoft Business Solutions, with that exec's year-ago quote that he was unaware of any completely cloud-based companies doing ERP seriously.
