My personal views about Work, Life, Technology, and other random interesting topics.
Or is that tweeting? not sure.
I will not use it for random status updates (e.g. “I am in bathroom shaving my beard”), rather I will post to it when I want to blog, but I am too lazy to sit down and do a thought-out spell-checked blog entry :), so follow at your own risk.
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I also added a twitter badge to the left column of this page.
Cheers,
— amr
I was meaning to put this talk up for grabs for some time now, but kept forgetting. I was invited to give the keynote speech for the Microstrategy World 2008 conference. The talk was very well received, so here is the presentation in pdf format.
This is one of the key slides which shows the main layers/components of the Business Intelligent stack at Yahoo:
I have been mentioning this analogy verbally to folks for some time and found it is getting good traction, so time to write it down in pixels.
The browser was initially not free and had a lot of hoopla around it, hence the rise of Netscape. Soon the browser became free since folks realized that the value is not the browser it self, but rather what you can do with the browser, the rest is history.
There is a similar trend happening with VMs, they are currently costly (at least the high performance ones like ESX from VMware), but soon the VM will be free. The true value will not be the VMM it self (i.e. the hypervisor), but in what it enables. VMware is obviously aware of that, hence why all the value-added applications they are building (like VI), and their acquisition strategy (B-Hive, Determina, Foedus, Thinstall, Propero, Akimbi, Dunes, etc)
Cheers,
— amr