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January 02, 2008
- Time to get back to work.
I am flying up to Boston after spending almost a month away from the office, for a discussion about Spring VON and Spring VON Europe . Like many of the community I use VON as a benchmark of what is going on in the community, and I recognize that we are seeing a transition.
Among my carrier friends, I hear the nervousness brought on by rumors and realities of consolidations, mergers, and reengineering. In the vendor community I feel the uneasiness as customers and clients change roles and redefine their requirements. And in the vendor community I see the exhuberance of new strategies with the trepidation as the business model continues to be elusive.
We could make the case that all applications in the future will be residing on permission based marketing model driven by portals and web 2.0 interfaces. I am skeptical about this, but it could be that the Innovator’s dilemma has a new world order to study where applications find open access via customer’s community of interests.
It can also be that kewl kids end up with their own requirements for network performance that will make them focus on the infrastructure, or at least how to manage it.
While these things are not easily considered they are the real work ahead of us. Whatever part of the food chain you happen to be in, you have a perspective on these matters.
I hope you share them with me.
Posted by carl at January 2, 2008 12:34 AM