Business Technology New Concepts Killer Apps, And Stinky Tofu

摘要

Spent five fascinating days meeting with business-technology vendors in the Bay area last week. Noticed some things I hadn't seen on other such trips: Some companies actually expect people to PAY for bottles of water or soft drinks―remember when everything in the company commissary from Perrier to Puppy Chow was offered free, free, free? About 25% of the companies we visited have pushed the concept of scalability out to their whiteboards―some conference rooms are lined with them, floor to ceiling, while a couple of companies have turned office doors into .whiteboards: "Biking―back 3:00―Niners by 6 w/pts!"