Comments on: IBM’s IOD Conference: Reactions

By: Ric

Ric — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:53:33 +0000

@bruce … bingo! (if you’ll pardon the pun) – my experience exactly. Seems to me the larger the customer organisation, the better that “newspeak” goes across – maybe because they can re-use it to ‘baffle with bullshit’ at management meetings?

It IS a symptom of outsourcing your thinking …

By: Information on Demand 2008 « Notes from a small field

Information on Demand 2008 « Notes from a small field — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:15:12 +0000

[...] 11, 2008 by jt A slightly overdue look back at the Information on Demand conference; check Stephen’s post for [...]

By: Peter Quirk

Peter Quirk — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:45:39 +0000

Regarding large cloud datastores, check out EMC’s announcement today of Atmos, a massively scalable, globally distributed Cloud Optimized Storage system. 6 petabytes is a walk in the park for this product.
* Office press release: http://tinyurl.com/6nmolj
* Commentary from Storagezilla: http://tinyurl.com/6ds7zb
* Commentary from Steve Todd: http://tinyurl.com/6rx972

By: Bruce Stewart

Bruce Stewart — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:00:50 +0000

Customers who soak up and thrive on jargon use it as a way to avoid thinking. (This is true regardless of vendor, and is an outgrowth of managerial culture: see John Ralston Saul, “Voltaire’s Bastards”.)

They’d really rather not think things through and apply it to their own situation. They are delighted with case studies and so-called best practices, because it gives them the feeling of safety without earning it. Not only that, the fear factor underlying all this is eased by the sense of having company.

Few people choose freedom instead of a feeling of security, and this is just another place that shows up.

By: James Governor

James Governor — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:15:11 +0000

great point about the marketing, stephen. bingo is not a good place to be.