Jeff Bezos' New New Thing - the Old Old Thing
Business Week gets uncharacteristically breathless about Jeff Bezos' amazing, risky, unheard, innovative, super-duper bet: Bezos wants Amazon to run your business, at least the messy technical and logistical parts of it, using those same technologies and operations that power his $10 billion online store. In the process, Bezos aims to transform Amazon into a kind of 21st century digital utility.
Wow, Jeff, that's so totally, insanely, amazingly, utterly, far-outly, er, identical to an idea that IBM had four years ago:IBM is laying down a $10 billion wager that business technology of the not-too-distant future will center on what it calls "computing on demand."
Maybe you and the Business Week team should go and take a nice long cold shower. Not together, you understand.
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yes but Amazon is actually executing on On Demand tooling. IBM on the other hand - On Demand was about services.
what matters is not ideas but implementation. Amazon is actually implementing.
I'm afraid I've not come across the phrase "on-demand tooling", and even the Great Googleness knows of only 34 instances: could you explain at little, please?
Re-reading the BW piece, I notice it talks about analogue aspects of business as well as the digital side: is that what you mean?
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