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We’ve got a Left Coast online business celebrity saying hello on this (very very) very long tail journal, and explaining that my previous post missed his point:

I am not for a second suggesting that “software: the ability to create systems, born out of the heads of bright people, that add value for people and organizations” is going away. My point was only that the world of shrink wrapped software, and increasingly enterprise software, is a dying breed. Software as a Service and internet service models are going to dominate the software landscape going forward. In which case, at scale, scale will matter (is that recursive?).

I’d like to take this opportunity to point people both to Ventureblog and Venturecast, which I avidly consume. I am not a cheerleader for “web 2.0″ the way he is, but he is really smart and articulate about important business-technology issues, and he’s well worth listening to. Especially when he is provocative like he was in the last post, and even more so when when I disagree with his conclusion, because these get my intellectual juices flowing. I hope they do so for you as well.

As for the substance, David makes a point above about enterprise software being a dying breed. This is a broader theme that he and others have discussed in the past, probably a good subject for a post - for I think he is utterly wrong. Thanks for visiting, David!

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