Steve Ballmer and his views on SharePoint, competitors, and technology
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We've have it on great authority; from a friend of a friend who knows someone who might be a close friend of Ballmer (we think Steve Ballmer) that the following is what he tells them.
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- 2. Let’s put things in perspective… SHAREPOINT EVERYONE ELSE
- 3. You can’t stop the bullet train, you can only hope to connect with it.
- 4. I tell my competitors, ‘that if you see a bandwagon, it’s too late.’
- 5. If an Airplane followed the same development cycle as SharePoint, a Boeing 747 today would get a million miles per gallon, cost $1000, and travel 100,000 miles per hour.
- 6. There’s an enormous number of SharePoint Admin who can relax on the job
- 7. What he secretly says about them
- 8. Kept trying to tell Jive CEO Tony Zingale it's best to wait until a product is out of beta before you file for an IPO.
- 9. Word is IBM has built a thinking chip; so they're now in the process of replacing the Connections Software development team.
- 10. Notice that the fear of computers becoming I Intelligent and taking over the world has entirely disappeared from the media? Seems to me, this coincides with the release of Oracle’s Business Intelligence Suite.
- 11. If you make something idiot proof evolution will insure the rapid emergence of a better idiot.
- 12. We once considered Jive as a product name, but worried its meaning of deceptive, exaggerated or meaningless talk might be a liability.
- 13. If IBM’s, Thomas Watson were alive today h he’d instead say, ‘I think there’s a world Connections market for about 5 Computers
- 15. "I would love to change the world, but harmon.ie won't give me the source code"
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- 17. CREDITS & ATTRIBUTION Slide Sources Notes 3 http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcp_dmoz/3700447633/sizes/l/in/photostream/ Creative Commons 4 http://www.flickr.com/photos/hluisi/4096109102/sizes/l/in/photostream/ Creative Commons 5 TripIET – Airliners.net Attribution 5 Quote adapted from inside. Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld magazine 6 http://www.flickr.com/photos/slworking/ Creative Commons 8 Courtesy of Big think.com 10 Courtesy of My Mac.cc http://www.mymac.cc/2010/08/19/apple-evolution/ 11 Courtesy of The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2008/jan/21/jivetalkin 12 Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_J_Watson_Sr.jpg Creative Commons