Business Two Zero

Jimmy Wales, one of the founders of Wikipedia, was due to come and speak at the last London Wiki Wednesday. Sadly he cried off at the last minute saying he was under the weather, but he sent Alison Wheeler and Sue Gardner to speak on his behalf, and they did a great job (my late report […]

After being “spaced out” on the empty floor at Conchango last month, London Wiki Wednesday got “intimate” at BearingPoint’s London office in Paternoster Square.   I guess we had around 50 attendees, with a room designed for 30, but that just meant we had to be more friendly.  First I have to thank Andreas Rindler and […]

Charles Leadbeater has spent the last few years writing a book called We-Think: The Power of Mass Creativity. It’s due to be published in the summer, and a draft has been available for sometime on a website, to allow comments and contributions from anybody. He’s developing the book using the very phenomenon that he is […]

Some weeks ago I blogged about the smart people at Microsoft’s Architecture Strategy team  who are writing about  Software as a Service.  Gianpaulo Carraro has been spreading the word at every opportunity, most recently at SIIA’s OnDemand Summit in San Jose.  Last week I had a very interesting session with Dave Drach of Microsoft’s Emerging […]

A few days ago Sage announced a global agreement with MySQL AB which enables Sage to embed MySQL database technology into its worldwide product portfolio.  In the press release Chief Technology Officer of The Sage Group plc, Klaus-Michael Vogelberg, explains:
“Having made the decision to further improve the database technology that underpins our products, we chose […]

Earlier I posted my impressions of the new SAP, my thoughts on SDN, and Shai Agassi’s keynote presentations.  My overall impression is that I met some very smart people with good ideas and learned a lot.  One of the smart people was Chris Hearn, Product Marketing Director.  SAP are keen to emphasise their openness, and open […]

Recently Dennis highlighted that EditGrid might be the best online spreadsheet available.  A few days ago I had a session with David Lee, who told me all about the company, based in Hong Kong, and their strategy.  Subsequently David gave us an account on the system and we have had a chance to play.  I […]

A couple of months ago we Enterprise Irregulars got involved with a wrangle over the term Enterprise 2.0 with the “editors” at Wikipedia.  The term, which was first properly described by Andrew McAphee, was about to be removed from the site because it was a “Neologism of dubious utility”, with the argument that the term […]

I posted earlier about the Enterprise Irregulars collective response, published by Sandhill in response to their opinion piece suggesting Open Source software would be the death of traditional Enterprise software.  Dan Farber (an Irregular) summarised our article on ZDnet.  Matt Asay argued against some of what we said, suggesting the outcome of the war between Open […]

Over at Sandhill,  Guy Smith of Silicon Strategies Marketing wrote an interesting opinion piece, which you should go and read, on the impact of Open Source on Enterprise Software:

“The old ways of the software business are dying but there is still time for even old-fashioned vendors to reposition themselves and compete in the open-source era.”

Guy’s […]