Just to back-up my thesis in “Is Corporate IT Becoming Boring” The latest issue of ACM Queue magazine has an interview with Ray Ozzie in it. He makes these statements:“In the enterprise, I think if I could wave my wand, there would be some solution that would correct the increasing divide between enterprises and home use. As a software maker, I’m extremely frustrated by the fact that when you look at the market both small business and consumers go to Dell.com, order their computers, and get the latest and greatest version of Microsoft Office and the latest operating system. Then they download all this really neat, new stuff off the Internet. These individuals and smaller businesses are really benefiting from that.Enterprise, on the other hand, are getting increasingly locked down and conservative because of compliance and CYA issues. I’m worried about that. And I believe enterprises should be concerned about this because it’s impacting their ability to be nimble and adaptive in today’s global market.”
And also:
“I’ve already seen people bringing their home laptops into work to do their jobs. People are using a product called Junxion Box, which creates a bridge from high speed commercial 3G data services to Wi-Fi, to create their own non-IT-managed wireless clouds within corporate boundaries so they can work in the office as they do at home.I only see this bifurcation between the home and office experience becoming an increasing problem.”
It’s a great article which highlights a number of the issues facing enterprises when it comes to collaboration, unfortunately it’s not available on the Internet so you’ll have to get a paper copy to know whether I am talking the truth or not.
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Great post Graham, I have not read Ray’s interview yet, but your extracts seem very encouraging. The most impressive thing for me is that Ray seems to be going back to Microsoft’s roots in his statements, asking how does he and Microsoft deliver value and innovation back to the end-user. Recently Microsoft seems to have swung too far towards the corporate agenda, and in doing so has forgotten what bought it the success it has enjoyed.
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