If you were looking to learn something new, this week’s Web 2.0 Summit was not the place to be. However, if you were planning to catch up, make contacts and swap business cards, then the Palace Hotel’s grandiose hallways were where all the action was. It was rare to chat up anyone at Web 2.0 who had anything positive to say about the official content or news. The consensus seemed to be same old, same old; the reason to break out the checkbook and skip out on real work was to mingle.
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Larry Ellison’s Secret Plan For Open Source
Paul Kedrosky has the scoop on Larry Ellison’s supposed plan to do an end-run around Microsoft and corner the the open source enterprise application market. From JBoss to Zend, to Spikesource. Business Week has an update. Apparently Larry has earmarked about $600 million for three deals. Funny this buying binge – and the firing binge [...] Continue »
SpikeSource Serious Suspicions
Michael Coté who despite being hundreds of miles away from the epicenter of hype around SpikeSource, nails it in his post. and identifies the problems with an “open source service company” business model:
For all the ballyhoo about open source being high quality, delivering features faster, etc., a huge part of open source’s advantage over commercial [...] Continue »
Spike SpikeSource
Web 2.0 is over! Good, I can go back to my early morning, caffeine fueled ranting. Today’s rant-a-special: you guessed it, SpikeSource. The blogsphere is fawning over Kim Polese and her marginal start-up, Spike Source. The company which made its debut at Web 2.0 for purely publicity purposes is nothing to really write home about. [...] Continue »
Web 1.0 seeks redemption in Web 2.0
For past 24 hours, the web has been abuzz with words about Web 2.0. Jeff has been blogging up a storm, and so has Sean Bonner. So perhaps I would not repeat what they have to say. I will, however give you my impressions of what’s going on, the color and the general atmosphere of [...] Continue »
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