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ray lane: Good riddance, software business: Ray Lane: Good riddance, software businessI disagree...While I agree that open source, software as a service, and the rise of development in China and India are interesting and important trends, Mr. Lane is greatly exaggerating their impact. Traditional software business models will continue into the foreseeable future along side...; Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Channel management, Tools & Techniques, Web, software, software-as-a-service, Web Based App, Ray Lane, OfficeLive; Discussion threads 2007-02-08
ray lane: Good riddance, software business: The software business model is dead. May it rest in pieces. Experts of all stripes are declaring an end to the software business as we know it. But whats going to take its place? The picture isnt clear yet, but one thing is certain -- well see fewer and fewer...; Tags: Business ROI, General, software, software business; Blog posts 2007-02-07
AlwaysOn: SaaS love fest: Ray Lane, of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, led the panel of software executives and competitors (you can see some wincing and uncomfortable body language among some of the participants if you are watching the Always On Stanford Summit Webcast), discussing whether the software as a service model has finally...; Tags: George Kadifa, Marc Benioff, Ray Lane; Blog posts 2006-07-26
Live blogging AO Stanford SaaS panel: I'm sitting at my PC late at night here in London watching a live webcast of Ray Lane hosting a panel on "Has the Software as a Service Model Finally Arrived" at AlwaysOn's Stanford Summit in California, and I have to say I'm a bit disappointed. I thought this...; Tags: Marc Benioff; Blog posts 2006-07-26
ray lane sees grass-roots media future -- for the enterprise: In this BusinessWeek interview, Ray Lane of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers calls standard media and press releases "a waste of time." The best way for enterprises and vendors to reach their communities: "blogs and wikis and podcasts and videos." Says Ray,What's going to happen is, employees are going to...; Tags: podcast; Blog posts 2006-06-05

Software 2006: The shifting landscape: M.R. Rangaswami started off Software 2006 outlining three major themes for the event at the Santa Clara Convention Center. He said the industry is undergoing a "quiet but dramatic revolution," driven by SaaS, open source and SOA architecture. According to a survey of CIOs by McKinsey & Company in...; Tags: Ray Lane, software, software company, industry; Blog posts 2006-04-04
SAP acquires white-hot Virsa - The ray lane effect: Today: SAP, the leader in enterprise applications said it is acquiring Virsa Systems, one of the fastest growing private US software companies. Virsa specializes in software to enable companies to be in compliance with Sarbanes-Oxely and other government regulations.Ray Lane used to be known as one of the industry's best...; Tags: Virsa Systems; Blog posts 2006-04-03
ray lane offers key stepping stones across today's no man's land of selling software: Ray Lane offers key stepping stones across today's no man's land of selling softwareBelieve it.Quoting from the article linked:I always ask enterprise vendors, "How many deals do you lose to open source?" The answer is invariably, "None." They don't even know about the customers who are choosing open source products...; Tags: Ray Lane, open source, software; Discussion threads 2006-01-12
ray lane offers key stepping stones across today's no man's land of selling software: Excellent insights and advice from Kleiner Perkin's Ray Lane on the ramifications of the business model turmoil in the software business. Whether you are buying, selling, investing in, or developing software, this article is absolutely required reading.One of the things (among many) that jumped out at me was the need...; Tags: software, Ray Lane; Blog posts 2006-01-12
My top ten people of the year part 1: I thought it might be a good idea to name my top ten people of the year. Everyone does the same year-end prediction lists, but I haven't seen a people list!?So here is my top ten (plus a few...) people list, as a denizen of Silicon Valley North (San Francisco);...; Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., JotSpot, Ray Lane; Blog posts 2006-01-04
ray lane visits the Gillmor Gang: Ray Lane visits the Gillmor GangAlso Open Source fits the criteria...Not only software as services, but also open source (with a dose of presence):- organic adoption (word of mouth); contextualized- no training required- uses social relationships- you get the value before you pay- no big IT footprint- no multi-year implementationChristof...; Tags: Ray Lane, Gillmor Gang, open source; Discussion threads 2005-10-16
ray lane visits the Gillmor Gang: Ray Lane was the guest on this week's Gillmor Gang, hosted by the Steve "I Plodius" Gillmor and joined by myself, Doc Searls, Dana Gardner and Mike Vizard. Lane, who served as president and COO of Oracle before become a VC with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, talked about Web...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Ray Lane; Blog posts 2005-10-15

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Content Protection madness on Vista: I'm a firm believer in the idea that if you pay for hardware, you should be able to make full use of it. However, DRM and content protection mechanisms are increasingly making this difficult for people. Here's a perfect example of what I mean. My wife, Kathie,...; Tags: Screen, Microsoft Windows Vista, Cintiq, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital Rights Management (DRM), Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Security, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-05-14
WorldWide Telescope (exe): The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a Web 2.0 visualization software environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world for a seamless exploration of the universe.WorldWide Telescope is created with the Microsoft Visual Experience Engine...; Tags: Environment, Sky, Web 2.0, Internet; Software downloads 2008-05-13
New version of Windows Presentation Foundation released: New version of Windows Presentation Foundation releasedJust add the events (ray) the way use to beI dont want to use the expression suite to do that; Tags: Operating systems, Windows Presentation, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft Windows; Discussion threads 2008-05-12
Novell to Sun: Here's an offer you can't refuse: Last week, I blogged about the possible future of a unified UNIX GPLv3 operating system "mother distro" comprising the merged source code of the Solaris and Linux kernels (and presumably, the source code of other vendors as well) and related GNU stack with associated tools and applications. ...; Tags: Novell Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., SCO Group Inc., GPLv3, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-05-12
A C3PO sighting in Pittsburgh: While touring Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center, CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi literally bumped into Anthony Daniels, the actor behind Star Wars' lovable android C3PO. You might not recognize his face, but you surely know his voice. Take a walk down memory lane with Daniels, who talks...; Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Telecommunications, Marketing, News, kara tsuboi, jared kohler, star wars, anthony daniels, pittsburgh, carnegie mellon, entertainment technology center, george lucas, ilm, skywalker, c3po, r2d2; Videos 2008-05-09
Neil Young gives his name to a spider: Canadian rocker Neil Young made headlines this week for appearing at the JavaOne conference and for releasing his musical archive on Blu-ray discs. But he was also honored by a East Carolina University (ECU) professor of biology, who named a newly discovered trapdoor spider Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi after the legendary rock...; Tags: East Carolina University, Species, Myrmekiaphila, M., Neotype, Blu-Ray, Investment, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Finance, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-05-09
Rumor Mill: What's on the Apple horizon: Hey there, it's Jake, Jason's evil twin. It's Friday which means that it's my turn to take the wheel for trip down Apple rumor lane. Fasten your seat belts because here we go: Apple Developing Wiimote-Like Controller? – AppleInsider reports that a new Apple patent application reveals...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., iLounge, 3G, E-mail, Desktops, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Hardware, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-05-09
New Dell Inspiron consumer laptops leaked! (hint: thin): Those tricky people over at Engadget have gotten their digital hands on the next crop of Dell Inspirons, and it's safe to say that thin is in. The Dell Inspiron 1435, 1535 and 1735 mid-range consumer laptops seem to share the same basic design and have, as...; Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Spec, Laptop Computer, Dell Inspiron, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Andrew Nusca; Blog posts 2008-05-08