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Is Drupal a Disruptive Technology?
What if Harvard College takes on Notre Dame in football. Of course we can beat them; after all, they're only men.
—Professor Harry H. Hansen, Harvard Business School, on understanding the limits of the possible.
There is a lot of talk, some would say hype, about Drupal being enterprise-ready.
Certainly Drupal is no piker system. From a relatively unknown...
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Is Drupal a Disruptive Technology?
Drupal's founder, Dries Buytaert, in his keynote at the 2010 San Francisco Drupalcon, asked the rhetorical question: Is Drupal a disruptive technology?
Product improves to serve more demanding markets. Image: Sun Blogs.
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Hollywood on the run.
Hollywood is worried, although they have not yet had a full-blown panic attack. Their bedrock market - the one they have always taken for granted - is eroding beneath their feet. Generation X, is growing up and their tastes have changed. The once captive audience that grew up on the "Star Wars" movies that their parents took them to is finding that their own children are not...
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In doing some catch-up on the Web 2.0 conference that happened a couple of weeks ago, I came across Kaliya's round up, where she remarks upon the rather inane statement made by television mogul Barry Diller:
Dumbest thing said on the stage:
Bary Diller dismissed the idea that citizens with blogs and video editing software were major threats to the entertainment industry. "There is not that much...
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A father found his old typewriter in the garage. He had some insurance forms that had to be filled out on originals in triplicate. His seven year old son was amazed by the typewriter. "What is it?"
The father tried various ways of explaining it and finally said. "It's a printer."
I type on these keys. The flat panel monitor takes up little space. The laser printer is light and sits nearby. At my...
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Hollywood wants protection from pirates. It turns out that regulation is something that businesses usually demand, especially after a group of individuals or corporations establish a dominant position in the market.
Debora Spar asks of her Harvard Business School students: if your strike it rich on your gold mine, is it efficient to build fences and stand guard around your strike?
Of course not....
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