I’m very happy and proud to announce that Rod A. Smith (t d f), Vice President, Emerging Technologies, at IBM (t d f) Software will keynote at BlogTalk (t d f).
From his corporate bio:“[...] Rod is responsible for leading technological innovation in the Internet software space, guiding it into industry standard specifications. Rod’s current responsibilities include Web Services, Linux, XML, next generation user interfaces and next generation development tools.

Add visibility (t d f) as a distinctive element of the tools and you’ll see that the opposite of trust is fear. Thus the more visibility is involved the more trust (t d f) is needed. That’s a thesis.

Mopsos - Collaboration tools for communities of practice: “I believe that the tools you use to collaborate depend on the level of trust you have established between the parties involved.”

Had a meeting with IBM (t d f) recently. IBM invests a lot in Open Source Software development. Their somehow delegated developers are not allowed to call home due to a risky intellectual property situation. That involvement sounds generous, however, it seems as if IBMs business modell conceives of OSS (t d f) - say Geronimo (t d f) - as an entry point to commercial licenses - say WAS (t d f).

I’m not entirely convinced if that’s really fun for us. Although def. a relevant move form the desktop pc to the web as platform.
I anticipate lots of competitors on a less diffused customer base but only one click away.
Made def. sense for Google (t d f) to invest in storage to give away and data-mining to harness the fruits.
[Update:] I think we’ll see java-enabled OpenOffice (t d f) via the browser (or/and the Google Toolbar) pretty soon.