How to take one sentence and miss the whole point of the post

Posted on October 6, 2006
Filed Under Enterprise Software, web 2.0 |

I should have known that when I wrote that post the whole “east coast doesn’t get it” thing would get blown out of proportion. It’s like our industry’s version of east coast vs. west coast hip hop, Tupak vs. Notorious BIG, August Ventures vs. Charles River. Actually it’s a lot less colorful than that, but you get the point.

Simeon, I said it was a generalization. I’d suggest you reread what I wrote, get beyond the east coast thing, and then write about new selling, delivery, and economic models instead of “AJAX is not new”. And no, it’s not about better marketing either.

Lastly, in reading Barry’s post I really don’t see how he was disagreeing with what I wrote, in fact he was echoing what I was saying, that this next phase is less about big new invention and more about pushing the envelope on web services. Composite applications. BTW, Barry is one of the most rational people in enterprise software so I don’t take it lightly when he either agrees or disagrees with me.

Further, we have on the whole yet to realize the benefits of SOA — which to me boils down to the easy and secure composability of business applications. You can talk all day about service discovery, fine/coarse granularity, security models, etc. — and make no mistake these are important — but the value is in the agility that rapid app composition gives to the enterprise.
UPDATE: Read Sadagopan’s post, he gets what I was writing about.

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10 Responses to “How to take one sentence and miss the whole point of the post”

  1. Ouch, that hurts « HighContrast on October 7th, 2006 5:30 am

    […] Jeff Nolan responds that I missed the point of his post. No, I didn’t. His post has a few great points about Enterprise 1.0 vs. Enterprise 2.0. (More on this here and here.) I’m only responding to his generalizations with some generalizations of my own. ;-) […]

  2. Chuck Woolery on October 7th, 2006 12:09 pm

    If you two would like to try again we’ll pick up the tab for the date or if you rather you may remain on your own. Jeff, what will it be? Want to try for a love connection?

  3. Susan Wu on October 12th, 2006 7:02 am

    Hey, being a west sider, I just wanted to point out that CRV has a good and growing presence on the West Coast…

  4. Jeff on October 12th, 2006 8:34 am

    Thanks Susan… I know. CRV is just the first venture firm I think of when I think of Boston VCs.

  5. Barry Briggs on October 24th, 2006 2:57 pm

    I just want to say that I think Jeff is one of the best judges of character I’ve ever encountered.

  6. Jeff on October 24th, 2006 10:14 pm

    yeah, I would think so :)

    Barry, when the heck are you going to be in the Valley and give me a call?

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