Saturday, February 17, 2007
Davos Panel web 2.0 - Gates, Hurley, Fake etc ...
Google Video of the panel at Davos with Bill Gates (MS & Gates Foundation), Chad Hurley (youtube), Caterina Fake (Flickr), Mike Parker (nike), Vivane Reding (eu commissioner), Dennis Kneale (forbes) and moderated by Peter Schwartz and the discussion of the future, Web 2.0 and how there are big changes in how the internet is going to be used - when you get passed some of the blatant self massaging of egos and commericals, Bill! A must see for marketing folk and anyone who plans to do business in the next few years - how the power is more and more in the customer's hand - creating a challenge for effective marketing to customers to purchase your product or service. For those who disagree, well it might be time to plan that retirement condo in Florida or Arizona!
Friday, February 16, 2007
Emerging Archiving vendor Archivas to be Acquired by Hitachi
After my recent posting on the emergence of a new set of archiving products - one Archivas is to be acquired by Hitachi Data Systems, congrats to Andres and his team over at Archivas - what is the likelhood that other pure plays like Kazeon, Permabit etc will be pursued by other storage, ILM and tier 1 players?
This is going to be the future trend in technology markets - the lessons learned by many of the larger vendors on the mid/late 90s of buy over build, is that time to market requires you to buy strategic or disruptive emerging technologies, nobody wants another BEA to happen, billion dollar player, IBM, MS, Oracle & Sun spend millions trying to catch up and get back market share at strategic parts in the techbology stack - from now on within 18 or 36 months of an emerging strategic piece of functionality the pure plays will be acquired by the larger vendors or those looking to take ownership in certain parts of the solution stack.
On another topic, watch for some disruptive vertical and point applications who have adopted the SaaS approach with more innovative pricing models, and the acceptance of the outsourced ASP model led by salesforce.com with several more to step up to the plate, this is really the hosted version of SaaS model.
Got to run - looks like my 4 year old IBM laptop is going to give up, the screen is fuzzy - excuse any typos - time to migrate to a MAC!
This is going to be the future trend in technology markets - the lessons learned by many of the larger vendors on the mid/late 90s of buy over build, is that time to market requires you to buy strategic or disruptive emerging technologies, nobody wants another BEA to happen, billion dollar player, IBM, MS, Oracle & Sun spend millions trying to catch up and get back market share at strategic parts in the techbology stack - from now on within 18 or 36 months of an emerging strategic piece of functionality the pure plays will be acquired by the larger vendors or those looking to take ownership in certain parts of the solution stack.
On another topic, watch for some disruptive vertical and point applications who have adopted the SaaS approach with more innovative pricing models, and the acceptance of the outsourced ASP model led by salesforce.com with several more to step up to the plate, this is really the hosted version of SaaS model.
Got to run - looks like my 4 year old IBM laptop is going to give up, the screen is fuzzy - excuse any typos - time to migrate to a MAC!
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