Friday January 06, 2006
Friday January 06, 2006
First blog entry since break.
Had an excellent time with a week before our break being purely vacation in Hawaii and the week of break being Christmas, family, friends and New Year! Didn't really think about work much. Did think about technology. Seems that it is everywhere. Hawaii is clearly a bit behind, but that is a good thing. Was a bit of a shock being away from the internet for almost a week and then coming back to the Silicon Valley where it is really just a part of life.
The couple of things that got me excited enough to write a blog entry were the interview with Hal Stern on Open Source and the buzz around the Google announcements about to come out today. Maybe I should have waited on that one, but I don't think that it really matters:)
Hal really gets it. I wish the industry would as well. The world is evolving very quickly around platform software. There are LOTS of small companies that have started efforts in platform software that need to move up the stack quickly. How many BPM companies are there out there? At my last count over 50. There is clearly the need, but not the market for this many. Most will be acquired or go out of business. The rest will attempt to move up the stack. We have seen this story before - it is just moving more quickly now. And Open Source is driving it. There will only be a hand full of platform providers in the future. These providers will have Open Source as a part of their strategy (well - all but one of them). They will provide the services around the supported platform that they create from these open source bits. We will be one of them!
The other is Google and their awaited announcement around alternates to the Windows operating system. Web based versions of most everything that we all need and use everyday. This is not new. It has been evolving to this for a while. But with Google and Yahoo jumping in - it is becoming real. They have mass reach. This will accelerate the change that was inevitable:) And the Yahoo!Go stuff that Yahoo just announced. These together with some of the startups who are using AJAX to build powerful tools shows that we are about to go mainstream with real web based tools. Wonder what Microsoft is thinking?!?!
Had an excellent time with a week before our break being purely vacation in Hawaii and the week of break being Christmas, family, friends and New Year! Didn't really think about work much. Did think about technology. Seems that it is everywhere. Hawaii is clearly a bit behind, but that is a good thing. Was a bit of a shock being away from the internet for almost a week and then coming back to the Silicon Valley where it is really just a part of life.
The couple of things that got me excited enough to write a blog entry were the interview with Hal Stern on Open Source and the buzz around the Google announcements about to come out today. Maybe I should have waited on that one, but I don't think that it really matters:)
Hal really gets it. I wish the industry would as well. The world is evolving very quickly around platform software. There are LOTS of small companies that have started efforts in platform software that need to move up the stack quickly. How many BPM companies are there out there? At my last count over 50. There is clearly the need, but not the market for this many. Most will be acquired or go out of business. The rest will attempt to move up the stack. We have seen this story before - it is just moving more quickly now. And Open Source is driving it. There will only be a hand full of platform providers in the future. These providers will have Open Source as a part of their strategy (well - all but one of them). They will provide the services around the supported platform that they create from these open source bits. We will be one of them!
The other is Google and their awaited announcement around alternates to the Windows operating system. Web based versions of most everything that we all need and use everyday. This is not new. It has been evolving to this for a while. But with Google and Yahoo jumping in - it is becoming real. They have mass reach. This will accelerate the change that was inevitable:) And the Yahoo!Go stuff that Yahoo just announced. These together with some of the startups who are using AJAX to build powerful tools shows that we are about to go mainstream with real web based tools. Wonder what Microsoft is thinking?!?!
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