SaaS makes sense in many cases

As Robert Preston points out in this Informationweek column Software as a Service is making sense not only for such applications as CRM and ERP, but also for system management, Business Intelligence and Supply chain management.
Gartner predicts that 25% of all business software will be delivered as a service by 2011, up from 5% today.

End of the best of breed in BI software firms

Business Intelligence software is hot. This year, three of the best-known BI companies have been scooped by the giants. Oracle acquired Hyperion, SAP is buying Business Objects and IBM this announced this month, that it is adding Cognos to its string of acquisitions.
The software industry is now dominated by these giants - Microsoft, IBM, SAP and Oracle (excellent Business Week piece). Only SAS, Microstrategy and Teradata are left among the best of breed BI companies.

Sugar Daddy post on Craiglist has legs

This was my post on October 10: "I believe that "Freakonomics" has sold 3 million copies worldwide. The authors, Levitt and Dubner are keeping up their creative output with their blog, and I don't miss glancing at it with my morning coffee. This entry from yesterday, although borrowed from another source (Craigslist) is a hoot. Enjoy!"

Whether the Craigslist ad itself is a creative piece of copy (i.e.fake), and even though the response may be a bit sexist, you have to agree that it is quite funny and well-written. There is even some economic analysis in the response cited in the Freakonomics post.
I hear the post has found wide readership in New York and especially on Wall Street. Furthermore, the story has been picked up by some media heavyweights from the Times to the BBC News to Scientific American.
A friend of mine checked out the original Craigslist ad. He found several other humerous responses to the lady looking for a Sugar Daddy.
Readers: If you read anything funny, and even if it has a smidgen of economics, please share it by posting the link as a Comment on my blog.