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Nicholas Carr Might be Right
By John | December 14, 2007
The “Argument†itself might be proof that Carr is right! Why? Because it’s made its way down to our rusty corner of the world, ESM. My god, don’t even bother to read the complete argument. I felt that I needed to due to Scott Bar’s recent post on the Tivoli Mailing List list. I gave up somewhere in the middle of James Govenor’s post. In some twisted way, I think the fact that this blog stream has shown up on the TME10 might be proof that Nicholas Carr is correct - “We are all connected and sexy is inevitableâ€.
A short summary of the argument goes as follows: Bill Gates poses a question about enterprise software. A bunch of people start arguing in a nanny nanny, he said she said. In the end, the argument can be summarized as “Can enterprise software be good and sexy?†Some guys say no, and others say yes. Here’s my take …
Good software is good, and bad software is bad. In the end, good software will always win. It might take awhile, and the owners of the good software might be the same ones who were giving you the bad software (i.e., they acquire good software companies). The idea that enterprise software is crappy and just deal with it is beyond silly. In fact, it’s “ludicrous speed.†I dunno nuttin’ about nuttin’, so don’t even bother to argue with me on this. In my small corner of the enterprise, “ESM,†I can use the immortal words of Jeff Lebowski - “This Will Not Standâ€. Companies such as Google, Amazon, Alfesco, Hyperic, Zenoss, Reductive Labs, and OpenNMS are changing the game I have been playing for thirty years. If you don’t believe that, I have a river in
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Topics: hyperic |
December 14th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
actually the meat is in the last two sections. check them out if you wouldn’t mind john. ad-hoc case management has obvious implications for service management players
December 14th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Absolutely… Thanks for reading my blog
December 14th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
You ever have one of those days where you look up and it’s 2pm and all you have done is blog and read emails. Shoot, I promised my son I would play with starting at 3pm. Oh well.
James, I am sure you know I wasn’t attacking you article. You guys know how much I respect Redmonk. This coming from a guy who hates VC’s and Analysts. The reason I stopped reading was I was only trying to figure out what the argument was.
With that, I have read the complete article and I agree with you about SAP v. IBM/MS. I agree IBM is not looking at what’s really going on, unless they are hiding it real well. SAP is about two acquisitions from seriously changing the game. IBM is silently preparing for battle with SAP with their Maximo acquisition (IMHO) to compete with SAP as they look today. By the time (if) they get there SAP might look completely different.
Last month I had some fun by just being silly with this post
http://www.johnmwillis.com/wp/utility-cloud-computing/let%e2%80%99s-party-2008-utility-cloud-computing/
It will be fun to get to watch what happens in 2008.