By Ron Tolido
Imagine you are running a cosy, successful coffee bar in the centre of your old town. It’s the only one there and you seem to have built your own base of regular customers over the course of years. Then, one memorable day, Starbucks suddenly...
Read moreMy colleague Sundar Ramanathan drew my attention to the somewhat surprising merger of two well known industry standards bodies in a move that really could make a serious difference by providing a wider and more comprehensive approach that should move...
Read moreWell it had to happen didn’t it? If we have more and more emphasis on Open Source Software and on using the Web as a Platform, (albeit that might become Cloud Computing eventually), at some time the thought of architecturally consistency for these...
Read moreYou know that new things are getting serious when the big names in any market start to take a real interest in adding the new to their current position. It seems that some of the new Web 2.0 technologies have reached that tipping point with some of...
Read moreIt’s something I particularly like to do when speaking at Open Source conferences, where the sentiments every now and then just tend a bit too much towards the politically correct. Open Source is Free, Green, Saving the World and – most...
Read moreI have been struck recently by how many times I have been in conversations about what I think I can best describe as the ‘removal of value’ from products, or at least the failure to create a sustainable business proposition. Most alarmingly most...
Read moreSometimes it seems really quite big news gets ‘slipped out’ almost as though the large corporation concerned really doesn’t want to let on formally. Maybe it's because there has been so much work done to construct a public position for some...
Read moreIt is fair to say that Open Source has had a major impact on the software industry. If I attempt to take a balanced view then I would say that different circumstances in terms of what we want to use software for, has also played a major part, and has...
Read moreAm I part of the Long Tail? I guess so, given the fact that I recently found – after a profound search – a German website on which I could order Schlagende Wetter. This is a long lost CD from 1982 by Kowalski, a band from the industrial Ruhr...
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By Ron Tolido
Let’s iterate a bit on the recent item about the power of collaborating crowds. The management summary of that item: through the Internet, people all over the world can connect, communicate and then create – possibly in big communities –...
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