The high tech titans – IBM (IBM), HP (HPQ), Oracle, Microsoft (MSFT), SAP (SAP) and EMC (EMC) – and their smaller software brethren have been nibbling […]
Last week, Goldman Sachs analyst David Bailey raised his rating for the hardware sector to attractive from neutral. He remains cautious “although we are not calling […]
Market headlines have noted the milestone of the S&P 500’s year-to-date (YTD) performance moving into a positive gain with Tuesday’s market gains. That is terrific news […]
On-Demand Index spiked even higher than the jubilant market yesterday gaining 8.43%. With yesterday’s gain the On-Demand Index moved into a positive territory for YTD (year-to-date) […]
The On-Demand Software Index continues to outperform the major stock indexes on a relative basis but remains behind the S&P Software Index (IGV). Yesterday the on-demand […]
Software companies, as represented by the iShares S&P North American Technology-Software Index Fund, continue to outperform the overall market indices (see table.) Although these companies and […]
The Boston Globe had an interesting article in its Sunday November 2, 2008 business section “Keeping it simple for the customer.” The article presents some of […]
The On-Demand Index (ODI) was down 3.65% on Thursday, October 23, 2008, down 52.75% year-to-date (YTD) and the stocks within the index are down an average […]
The On-Demand Index (ODI) is now available online and up-to-date (with a potential delay of 20 minutes for stock quotes.) I am using Google Docs and […]
The On-Demand Index (ODI) is down 18.55% YTD. This compares to YTD performance: iShares S&P GSTI Software Index Fund (IGV) -7.69%, Dow -14.46%, Nasdaq Composite -12.69% […]
The R&B (Recession and Bear market) words are continuing to impact many of stocks on the On-Demand Index. The On-Demand Index is down 21.22%YTD and the […]
It continues to be a challenging investment environment for tech stocks and our On-Demand (or SaaS) index confirms that environment. The On-Demand Index is down 16.80% […]
It continues to be a tough year for financial, tech and SaaS stocks. Our On-Demand Index is down 16.74% YTD. In comparison the Nasdaq Composite index […]
Nicholas Carr discusses the upcoming year for SaaS (software as a service) or On-Demand software in 2008: SaaS’s breakout year? posted in his in his “Rough […]