Congrats to Jill Dyche (http://twitter.com/jilldyche)  on the fantastic article on Destination CRM blog.   => http://www.destinationcrmblog.com/2009/05/19/guest-blog-the-mdm-forum-tom-siebel-sends-his-regrets/.

Jill wrote the CRM handbook. She has laid out a consistent message of CRM as a data federation tool, pushing and pulling data into various systems. This is what I am passionate about — integrating ERP systems into Microsoft Dynamics CRM, our work every day. Thanks Jill for the reminder that we are on the right track. 

Also kudos to Josh Weinberger editor of CRM Magazine for reminding us why staying in the lead is so hard.  Because according to Tom Seibel, Cloud Computing was a failed business model.

“CRM: Do you believe the hosting model for CRM like the one promoted by Salesforce.com is a threat to vendors like Siebel?

Siebel: They’re not in my consideration as a competitor. I believe I have never encountered them competitively in nine years. And I am absolutely satisfied that they do not have a viable business model. “