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IP: Clay Shirky's analysis of Microsoft Hailstorm
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 13:31:48 -0400
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 10:01:42 -0700 From: "Tim O'Reilly" <tim () oreilly com> Clay Shirky has a very interesting article on Hailstorm on OpenP2P.com, at http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2001/05/30/hailstorm.html He looks especially at how MS mixes decentralization and open access on the client side with strong control of third party development and user data. He explains how we should think of it as an authentication-centric, rather than hardware-centric system. I'm the publisher of openp2p.com, but I'm just speaking as a reader when I say that this is one of the most insightful technology-as-business-strategy analyses I've ever read. And it's very topical, since the development of the next generation "internet operating system" is one of the key computer industry battlegrounds right now. -- Tim O'Reilly @ O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. 101 Morris Street, Sebastopol, CA 95472 +1 707-829-0515, FAX +1 707-829-0104 tim () oreilly com, http://www.oreilly.com
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