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The Enterprise is widely viewed as the next playground for collective technologies known as Web 2.0. While there has been a lot of talk, only a handful of companies have come up with Web 2.0 inspired offerings targeting the enterprise. EMail software provider, Zimbra is one such company that has impressed. Add Redwood City, California-based Coghead to the list of those companies.
Microsoft Corp. today announced the general availability of Microsoft Dynamics™ AX 4.0, an adaptable, global business-management solution that works like and with familiar Microsoft® software and helps organizations gain a competitive advantage. Through the use of Web services and other enhancements, the highly anticipated new release delivers a complete enterprise resource planning (ERP) package to automate and streamline processes across a company’s financials, customer relationships, business services, human resources and the supply chain.
In this BusinessWeek interview, Ray Lane of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers calls standard media and press releases “a waste of time.” The best way for enterprises and vendors to reach their communities: “blogs and wikis and podcasts and videos.” Says Ray,
Darwinian Web: A CTO’s guide to Web 2.0
Web 2.0 forces a company to adopt the one thing any good CTO should loath, dependencies. You have to allow your company to be dependent on other people’s code, their voices, their data, and their personal motivations that can’t necessarily be overridden by money.
I think that famous quote by Dell that Apple should “break up the company and give the money back to shareholders” (or something like that) will follow Dell to his grave, especially given that Apple now has a higher market cap than Dell.
AppleInsider | Dell burnt by fire sale, shares slide: Shares of Apple Computer rival Dell Inc. slid over 5 percent on Tuesday morning after the company warned investors that earnings for its first fiscal quarter will fall below guidance as a result of recent price cuts aimed at maintaining its lead as the world’s leading manufacturer of personal computers.
But the folks over in the Microsoft Business Solutions division want to make sure that no one forgets that the MBS team already is doing a lot of what Microsoft and SAP are promising.
While describing the JavaScript programming that is taking place inside the Browser’s guts, Windley pointed out that browser-based client applications have become O/S indifferent. Operating systems have been finally abstracted out from the entire transaction chain.
And then the inevitable metaphor (”Everything is a metaphor”) of the Browser-as-a-Platform was mentioned, triggering a bunch of thoughts in my head on the Browser-as-a-platform interfacing the Internet-as-Platform, thoughts that made me feel dizzy after a while. Something was wrong and I was having a cognitive Ajax dissonance which I will describe now.
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