- peer-to-peer VoIP in the enterprise is heating up. Via techdirt
http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=53169&site=supercomm
- Bill Gates talked about blogging and RSS at the M$oft CEO conference. He makes a good case for replacing email.
http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/speeches/2004/05-20CEOSummit.asp
- Ward Cunningham is the guy who created Wiki's, and not surprising to me, is now a M$oft employee. He gives a really good interview on Channel9
http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=8047
- Google indoctrination continues... I don't know, but it seems that as soon as you start codifying your principles you start to take the edge off of innovation.
http://battellemedia.com/archives/000672.php
- Excellent post. Software distribution models reviewed. via TJ
http://www.bricklin.com/licensingthinking.htm
- closely related posting on the shift in enterprise software licensing models.
http://blog.pivia.com/archive/000046.html
- It's tough being a CEO... I agree with Ed on the observation that VC's don't like surprises so overcommunicate with your board.
http://www.beyondvc.com/2004/05/its_tough_being.html
- blogging behind the firewall, how companies are using blogging to achieve real gains. It's really a shame that SAP is so far behind the curve on this stuff, sure SDN pioneered blogging for the develoers but nowhere else is the company is anyone seriously looking at this.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/05/21/21OPconnection_1.html
- Michael Dell vs. Carly Fiorina celebrity smackdown
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/24/business/24print.html
- Bob Metcalfe skewers N. Carr's "Does IT Matter" proposition in the latest issue of Technology Review. Metcalfe uses a range of examples to prove his point, but misses the big point that IT itself doesn't matter, it's what you DO with it that does. Sure, lot's of innovative businesses (Amazon) are built on IT, but I can easily argue that it's the combination of IT with tactical and strategic execution that make the difference. If Amazon try to shoehorn their IT into a retail storefront model, it most likely have fallen on it's face. We could go round-and-round on this, but at the end of the day, does it (as opposed to IT) really matter?
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/metcalfe0604.asp
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