Latest Industry News about Runaware

After rejecting standards war, virtualization vendors start supporting common spec

2008-07-15 12:00

Standards wars, such as the Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD battle, can keep many potential users on the sidelines until a winner is declared. Virtualization software vendors are trying to avoid just such a battle over the adoption of virtual appliances.

Citrix announces tools, based on OVF specification, for building virtual appliances Such appliances are software bundles containing an operating system and application that have been pre-configured and tuned to run in a virtualized environment. The idea is to ease and speed up deployment of new virtualized applications, but that's contingent on the virtual appliances being able to work with various virtualization technologies, such as VMware Inc.'s ESX Server, Citrix Systems Inc.'s XenServer and Microsoft Corp.'s new Hyper-V software.

Runaware TestDrive a "Green" Marketing Alternative

2008-06-20 12:00

Software companies have made strides in reducing their footprint of non-renewable resources by distributing their products through download or through the SaaS (Software as a Service) subscription model. Often overlooked, however, are the CDs, shipping boxes, and sales brochures (not to mention airplanes and delivery trucks) used to send out demo versions of software.

Runaware, a Fort Lauderdale-based company, has a uniquely “green” alternative to this process. TestDrive lets software vendors demonstrate their products to multiple users over the Web in a virtual “test drive” environment. The solution enables prospects to interact with the vendor’s fully-featured product, yet without ever loading the software onto their personal PC or workstation.

Lexware, Mamut Sign LOI for Co-Branded Edition

2008-06-09 12:00

Mamut ASA Mamut has announced that a Letter of Intent has been signed with Germany's supplier of small business software, Lexware, a fully-owned subsidiary of Haufe Media Group.

Through a joint venture Mamut officials say, Mamut and Lexware will offer a co-branded edition of Mamut One with components from Mamut, Lexware and Haufe Group to the German SME segment. The two companies will also share and co-develop Software + Services platforms and components.

There's a product called TestDrive, launched by Runaware, which lets software vendors offer trials of CDs, downloads and hosted interactive online demos. Once a potential user tries the online demo, his profile is sent to the sales force through the CRM system. This gives a vendor a chance to see who is testing their software.

Runaware's TestDrive Reduces Carbon Footprint

2008-05-30 12:00

Software companies are increasingly making an effort to reduce their carbon footprint by making their products available to consumers through download or through the SaaS (Software as a Service) subscription model.

Runaware, a Fort Lauderdale-based company, has a uniquely “green” alternative to this process. TestDrive lets software vendors demonstrate their products to numerous users over the Web in a virtual “test drive” environment. The solution allows prospects to work with the vendor’s fully-featured product, yet without ever loading the software onto their personal PC or workstation.

Online Behavior Tracking: No Such Thing as Enough

2008-03-11 12:00

Being tracked online is not, in itself, a bad thing, because it actually reduces the number of ads you are bombarded with online. "A lot of people in different empirical studies have emphatically said they prefer relevant advertising," said Greg Sterling, founding principal of Sterling Market Intelligence.

Intuit Offers VARs Code-Free Way to Build Their Own SAAS

2008-02-27 12:00

The company creates a formal partner program for its QuickBase platform, offering commissions of 20 to 35 percent. Looking to attract VARs and business domain experts as partners for its build-your-own SAAS offering, Intuit has introduced a formal channel program for its code-free application development and hosted platform, QuickBase.

Hon tar anonymt utvecklingsbolag till börsen

2007-12-11 12:00

Efter att ha kört på sparlåga sedan starten 1999, händer allt i snabb takt för svenska bolaget Runaware. Försäljning har kommit igång ordentligt, framför allt i Europa, och nu väntar en notering på Nordic MTF.

Runaware noteras efter år på sparlåga

2007-12-07 12:00

Efter att ha kört på sparlåga sedan starten 1999, händer allt i snabb takt för svenska bolaget Runaware. Försäljningen ökar i Europa och nu väntar en listning på Nordic MTF.

Carros svarta tvillingsjäl

2007-12-03 12:00

Hon ser ut som Carolina Klüfts svarta tvillingsyrra och kan bli Göteborgs nya stora musikexport. Läs också om finanskvinnan som gjorde sig omöjlig hos Mats Odell. Nu håller hon en prestigefylld föreläsning på Handelshögskolan.

Microsoft Wants a Bigger Slice of VMware's Pie

2007-11-16 12:00

VMware is taking a lot of money out of the current hardware environment with its virtualization product offerings, and Microsoft wants to participate in that value chain, according to Bob Kelly, Microsoft's corporate vice president of infrastructure server marketing.

Is conventional software built on bubble economics?

2007-09-26 12:00

It’s a telling comparison, but even I was taken aback at the conclusion Warfield draws from it in a side comment (my emphasis added): “I wonder sometimes whether the conventional software model has ever really flourished except during bubbles of one kind or another. Look at Big ERP. They had the benefit of several major bubble waves: the rush to switch to client server architectures, the Y2K debacle, and then right on the heels of Y2K was the Internet Bubble. Would these businesses have grown nearly so large without any of those bubbles? Maybe SaaS would’ve gotten here sooner. The choice between the two is a Tortoise (SaaS) versus the Hare (Old School ISV) race.”

SAP Launches 'New Era' With On-Demand Software

2007-09-19 12:00

SAP Business ByDesign automates a wide range of business processes and will cost companies $149 per user per month. Before several hundred people in a midtown Manhattan theater Wednesday, SAP (SAP) CEO Henning Kagermann said the company's new on-demand software is the start of a "new era" for SAP. "I'm now 25 years in this company, and I can say it's the most important announcement I've made in my career," Kagermann declared.

Online marketing tools come of age

2007-09-10 12:00

Did you hear the one about the VP of marketing who demanded budget and IT support for a $10 million enterprise application that he promised would revolutionize how his company did its marketing? Neither did we. The truth is marketers have as much chance of landing a large capital budget software implementation as they do securing a two-week vacation coinciding with a big new- product launch.

Microsoft tries free office suite

2007-08-02 12:00

Free copies of some of Microsoft's office software will soon be available.

The 40 Fastest-Growing Software Companies

2007-06-11 12:00

The biggest public software companies are increasingly relying on acquisitions for growth, as they pick off weaker competitors or startup companies that have decided not to go it alone. In addition to their desire to get bigger, those doing the acquiring say they are responding to a move on the part of enterprise customers to reduce the number of vendors with which they do business.

Online ad spending surges

2007-06-06 12:00

Internet display ad spending jumped 17% in the first quarter while total ad spending fell. No wonder Google stock's at a record high.

How Google's Acquisition of FeedBurner Will Change RSS Marketing

2007-06-04 12:00

While the original plan for the RSS Diary blog was leaving on hiatus until the 2007 edition of the RSS Marketing e-book is done, the FeedBurner acquisition by Google is a story just to important to pass up ... especially all the implications it might bring into the world of RSS Advertising, and RSS Marketing as a whole as well.

QuickBooks Online Surpasses 100,000 Customer Milestone

2007-05-30 12:00

Customer Total Quadruples in Three Years as Small Businesses Discover Anywhere, Anytime Accounting Made Easy

Intuit Q3 Profit Surges 23 Percent

2007-05-18 12:00

Intuit posted revenue of $1.15 billion for its fiscal third quarter, a 21 percent increase when compared with the $952 it reported in the year-ago period. The company's third-quarter profit reached $367 million, a 23 percent increase when compared with $299 million last year.

Canada's software industry lost $890M to piracy in 2006: report

2007-05-15 12:00

Software pirates got a little busier in Canada in 2006, with a new study showing that Canada's software piracy rate rose by one percentage point to 34 per cent last year. The report by the Canadian Alliance Against Software Theft (CAAST) and the Business Software Alliance (BSA) said losses to the Canadian economy due to software piracy totalled $890 million in 2006.

Microsoft Puts Emphasis Online

2007-05-07 12:00

Company allocates 60% of marketing budget for Office 2007 to Internet

On-Demand Software: Threat Or Opportunity For VARs?

2007-02-05 12:00

As software-as-a-service gains ground, how will solution providers adapt?

Purging Bloat to Fashion Sleek Software

2007-01-18 12:00

Microsoft spent the first dozen years of Office’s life piling on new features. Over time, the humble word processor called Word became a photo editor, a Web-design program and a dessert topping. Not one person in a hundred used those extra features. Still, we kept buying the upgrades, thanks to our innate fondness for unnecessary power (see also: S.U.V.’s). Eventually, however, Microsoft Office developed a reputation for bloat and complexity. It was fully grown: tall, hairy and toothy.

2007 Microsoft Office System Is Golden

2006-11-06 12:00

Microsoft Corp. announces the completion of the 2007 Microsoft® Office system code and confirmed its release to manufacturing (RTM).

Microsoft opens Office 2007 for online test drive

2006-06-27 12:00

Testing Office 2007 through a browser eliminates the problem of incompatibility with earlier versions of Office.

Microsoft puts Office preview online

2006-06-26 12:00

Microsoft is trying to allow people to try out the next Office--without the hassle of installing beta software or replacing their current version.

Citrix Systems, Inc. has teamed with Microsoft Corp.

2005-04-18 12:00

Citrix Enables Microsoft Federal Government Customers to Take a Software Test Drive Agencies Can Now Test Application Functionality Online Before Purchase; Service Designed to Shorten Sales Cycle by More Than 25 Percent

Medical instrument demonstrated directly over the Internet

2004-11-23 12:00

Swedish company first in the world with medical instrument demonstrations

Increasing Lead Generation and ROI with Runaware and Runademo

2002-10-04 12:00

Rick Chapman says: "As with the Runaware evaluation system, we believe that Runademo is a marketing and sales solution that any software firm should take a long hard look at."

Runaware joins Citrix to offer software testing

2001-10-28 12:00

Ottawa-based Runaware Inc. said Monday it has struck a partnership with Citrix Systems Inc., based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to provide online, software evaluation services.

Reviews - Business Applications

2001-07-31 12:00

Runaware lets you evaluate more than 100 applications with an investment of only your time.

Runaware: The Demo Disk's Nemesis?

2001-07-26 12:00

Corel announced a deal with a new kind of application hosting animal, an evaluation service provider (ESP?).

2001-02-07 12:00

Runaware.com, Swedish-owned but North American-focused, will provide consumers and business users access to time- and function-limited trial versions of Corel's products online.

Test-drive your software apps -- for free -- before you buy?

2000-12-20 12:00

It's about time someone thought of this.

Runaware Allows Software Buyers to Test Applications on the Net

2000-12-20 12:00

Evaluation service provider Runaware Tuesday launched its flagship Web-service designed to provide a live test environment of software applications over the Internet.

Test drive your software

2000-12-20 12:00

Test drive your software over the Internet before you buy it with Runaware, an online site that offers full versions of software applications that can be run in a test environment.

Newcomer Runaware.com, calling itself an evaluation service provider, will vie for attention in the crowded ASP space.

2000-12-20 12:00

The Stockholm, Sweden-based company hosts software for companies to test and evaluate before buying.

Runaware offers software vendors global visibility, faster time to market and qualified leads

2000-12-20 12:00

Runaware's 'try before you buy' business model has been a runaway success. "It's a really exciting start-up with a great idea," says Pelle Axeland, founder, CVO (Chief Visionary Officer) at Runaware.

Swedish ASP gives user the skinny on software

2000-10-15 12:00

Swedish ASP gives user the skinny on software

Association of America Runaware.Com Enables Online Evaluation

2000-10-04 12:00

Runaware.com will give ExecWare the ability to cut costs associated with the sales and marketing of its new products, generate better quality sales leads offering global visibility to reach new markets.

Runaware.Com Enables Online Evaluation Of Execware's General Management Software

2000-10-03 12:00

Runaware.com Helps Lower ExecWare’s Sales and Marketing Costs, Generates Sales Leads

Corel Takes Advantage Of the Evaluation Service Provider Model from Runaware.

2000-10-03 12:00

Grounded in the very technology used to power ASPs, some software companies are beginning to see the advantage in electronic software education through evaluation service providers (ESP).

Runaware.Com Enables Online Evaluation

2000-10-02 12:00

Runaware.com announced a partnership with ExecWare to host free evaluations of their I-TRAC general management software over the Internet, free to the user and with no downloads.

Corel Corporation and evaluation service provider Runaware have signed an agreement to allow registered users to test Corel software free of charge over the Internet.

2000-08-01 12:00

Products available for demo include WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux, CorelDraw 9, Corel Custom Photo and Corel Ventura 8.

Runaware.com lets you evaluate software for as long as you like - for free!

2000-07-27 12:00

At runaware.com the world's leading software companies let you put their products to the test - not restricted demo versions, but the same full-featured version as you would buy. And since you use the program 'live' on the runaware.com site, you have no need to download it onto your hard drive.

Just Say No to Downloads

2000-07-15 12:00

Downloading demo versions of software or requesting evaluation copies from vendors can be a time-consuming process. Now Runaware.com will let users test full-featured versions of applications over the Web, without requiring a lengthy download or installation process.

Runaware has taken "try before you buy" to a whole new level.

2000-07-05 12:00

I have found performance to be pretty good over my modem. If you have a faster connection this should rock.

Users can test drive software applications over the Internet thanks to a Stockholm-based startup firm.

2000-05-18 12:00

Runaware AB has launched a vendor-independent World Wide Web site that currently offers English-language applications from five vendors.