PC Forum Day 2

Will Linux be the Last New Thing in the Enterprise?

Making Mydentity

Countrpoint: Open Dialogue

construction

What Dan'l Lewin said.

Big Boys panel

federation is about agreeing and exchanging just inough info to i8nterop, just in time. It's just enough, just in time. That also means you can disagree aboutmost things most of the time, and that doesn't prevent interoperation. the name of the game is loose coupling.

with corba just about the whole world needed to agree bout everything. stuff that it's unreasonable for everyobody to agree on at a large scale.

federationis about giviving up on the idea that the end points hve to use the same architecture. its about that place in the middle of agreeing that no matter what system either side uses that they can exchange info in a standare =d way wiht no knowledge of what's on the other side. This is what web services are about. It's in that space that nobody owns, everybody can use and anybody can improve.

it's a huge brainer. not a no brainer. all we have common agreemtn is that data will be in xml and we'll ship it over soap.

Open Source panel

Earlier Esther asked

FYI I was present at the UK announcement of the launch
of Centrino by the Intel head of UK Marketing. It was
announced during a wifi meeting at the Royal Garden
hotel in Kensington, London.

The only question I asked was 'my business uses linux
exclusively, can you guarantee that centrino will work
with the computers we use' - and got an affirmative,
in front of around 10 uk tech industry journo's.

So here are the topics:

2. The primacy of use value software.
   • Proprietary software is losing all its advantages —

Content and Context panel:

Bob Frankston (co-inventor of the spreadsheet, among other things): "Are you going to get between the user and the Net?"

Jonathan Miller (of AOL): "I'll give you the answer you won't like: I sure hope so."

Esther: "The balance of power shifts as the customer gets more clueful."

Bill mcdermott

• companies like SAP are unfairly advantaged.
• netweaver is open to .Net and ... open to do business with the customer, with other companies. be highly respectufl of where the customer wants to go.
• quotes Gartner and others saying more than 50% of all enterpri enterprise software h as failed - mark benioff, salesforce.com they donet want ent sw shoved down their throats. They;'re very risk averse. Couple web services and

Dan Bricklin

• with small companies, there is a problem with high expectations. They may

Esthere: the challenge is how to get relationships to work together. Not for you to ber the tech provider, but for you to be the relationshp manager for the customer.

TBL

• machine processible data
• extending r4elational datea to a web
• solving the appication integration problem
• the infrastructure...
• Don't say :color" say (url for pantone color). everything has a url
• reltional database subject and property intersect at value.
• subject -> value is the elemnt of the semantic web. subjects and arrows,
• can be encoded in xml
• ''simpicity
• sema
• usefull tree oriented
• in the sem web the subject and object are real tings

Sergey

• esther google is all algoriths and no content
• thre ae a hundred of similar algoritghsms that will each improve some searches and degrade others. how do you take
• ultimately there will be some degree of personalization in search, but I think it's overstated how much it will help.

"I remember when I used to get asked about our Internet revenues", John Patrick told me with a laugh at the closing coctail party at PC Forum last Tuesday evening. <http://patrickweb.com/> John is the retired 35-year IBM veteran who presided over a number of Big Blue's decisions to embrace rather than fight disruptive new technologies. The Internet was one of those technologies. So was Linux. "The Internet doesn't need to justify itself any more," he said. "That's close to being the case with Linux, too. We got past it with Linux at IBM a long time ago." Avery Lyford, President & CEO of Linuxcare and another IBM veteran, took it a step farther.

Robert Carter, Fedex

All data has context.

Many companies. Web is the best integration tool for us. A common face to the world. People have little idea how many companies are behind the scenes.

Non obvious relationship awareness.

Mitch the non-profit enterprise

tim

techniques for bguilding an architecture of cooperation in an organization. theh licensing focus cause us to miss many of the important social dynamics. You'll miss the Web "view xource' inthe browser. . agreat decision point. that idea, that you make it easy for people to join the party...

the internet is continuing to change the nature of the software that's offered

thre are a lot of great products that have gone down in the marketplace and might still be useful. Recycle some of this stuff to the humus.

There is no such thing as a sustainable proprietary advantage, because there an infinite number of ways to solve a problem. That's why I still can't see the value in patents. Even if you patent one particular way of doing something, there'll be another way. &#151; Laird Popkin