Reporting from the Supernova conference on a session featuring new Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, JOHO author David W. offers us a glimpse of the growing disconnect between nimble connection-and-interaction oriented enterprise software and the increasingly heavy "electronic concrete" still on offer by SAP and CRM suppliers, generally.
Have I ever told you the one about becoming a prisoner of a company’s electronic, CRM-friendly business process ?
The new CEO of Sun says that some workloads are not outpacing Moore’s Law — SAP, CRM, for example — and Sun is not going to chase those applications. Sun wants to find the apps that need more hw.
He says 100% of companies want the tech that will let them connect with their customers. So Sun has to pick and choose.
The companies that look at IT as a cost center are not as important to Sun as companies that look at IT as a way of growing their business.
David W.’s concise summary of the Supernova session ?
What’s the core R&D for Sun? "The era of custom hardware is on its way out." Make sure that every device that connects to the network can interact with it.
Tags: electronic concrete, interactivity, interoperability, work design
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