Cyberposium at Harvard Business School
A Cyberposium was held at Harvard Business School on November 19th, 2005. Some of the speakers included James (Jim) L. Balsillie of Research in Motion, Geoffrey Moore of Crossing the Chasm fame and Jeremy Allaire of Brightcove.
A few anecdotes from the cyberposium -
“The blackberry source code is just 200k. The OS is very small. The PC is at the heart of the ecosystem. The device carriers can build their own applications like voice and messaging that comes on top of the 200k.” - James L. Balsillie Chairman of Research in Motion
“There is enormous amounts of complexity in most organizations. A CIO would be lucky to say that he has only a hundred vendors. Managing vendor relationships efficiently is a challenge.” - Howard Dresner, Hyperion
“Interwoven is focusing on the financial services and the legal industry. We want to use as much as everyoneâs platforms as possible. We are about usability, customer intimacy and understanding the problem very well.” Rafiq Mohammadi, CTO of Interwoven.
“There is an artificial divide between structured and unstructed information. The artificial divide is holding back knowledge management. The lesson to be learnt is that information access is much easier with xml. Information access is equally horizontal for both businesses and users.” Steve Papa, Founder of Endeca.
“Customers only want to pay for what they use. But it is hard for a vendor to recognize revenue that way. Even then some companies let you license software based on the number of actual users. Computer Associates is doing this with a lot of success.” - Yogesh Gupta, CTO of Computer Associates
