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Tyranny of the Commodity ================ Largest companies on the planet participate in Commodity Markets - vast economic benefits from right model and technology It's not about the 'thing' you sold... it is the relationship you have and how you can harvest value The center of mass in I/T is no longer the desktop, it is the phone! For Sun, we want to 'light up' the most points on the network -- you can't lock up the network Red Hat - the software is free, but you MUST get the support contract Tough questions on UIs for Java -- new release "Tiger" Java 1.5 should help Insights into openness [ or lack ] of Linux -- is Red Hat the MSFT of the Linux world? -- who determines what goes into the kernel? * it's NOT the Linux community What will happen to TV News when camera phones are 30fps, 2Mpixels and stereo sound? Exploding the Enterprise ============== Discussion of Corporate I/T... I went networking - about 1/2 of the room was empty! Telephony ===== Niklas Zennstrom [founder of Skype and Kazaa] talks about Skype via Skype! - he calls in from Europe using Skype and walks us through his presentation Telephony lives at the edges of the network P2P topology allows for free voice calling - decentralized network topology is very resilient - no single point of failure [no central switching hub] - no overloaded servers - better privacy The voice quality of this Skype call is decent - AM Radio... without the static 35,000 new users sign up each day! - $0 marketing costs Intelligent terminals & Dumb network Traditional telecom regulation cannot be applied to software application User-based telephony [new] vs. Location based telephony [old] How money is made in telephony... 1) Your device is cheap 2) The backbone is cheap 3) Traversing space *between* is where the money is made!