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09/08/09

Has the WebOS Finally Arrived?

Dion Hinchcliffe over on ZDNet declared in a new post that the Web OS has finally arrived and that businesses and IT departments must adjust to the fact that everything's starting to move to the cloud. He cites John Hagel's so-called big business shifts of the 21st century and claims cloud computing, crowdsourcing, open APIs, Software-as-a-Service are the future of the workplace. He goes on to present a compelling visual model of the Web OS circa 2009 and examples to back up some of the statements.

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01/29/09

Oracle puts a price on single-tenancy

Oracle today announced a new centrally managed single-tenancy option for its SaaS CRM OnDemand application, along with various other features including unlimited custom objects. Existing prices remain the same, at $70 per user per month for the multi-tenant version and $125 per user per month for the previously available single-tenant enterprise version, which is a completely independent instance for which the customer can dictate its own upgrade and patch schedules.

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11/16/06

La próxima generación de redes, NGN, un trayecto hacia la convergencia

La situación actual del entorno de las telecomunicaciones se puede resumir en dos acrónimos: 'NGN' e 'IMS'. Descubra su significado e importancia en este interesante artículo. Automatización, digitalización, RDSI, conmutación de paquetes, integración voz y datos, IP, nueva generación de redes, IMS, convergencia... la evolución de los servicios y de las tecnologías de las telecomunicaciones ha sido habitualmente señalizada por uno o varios términos, acrónimos, que sintetizan bien en términos sociales y en el de las claves técnicas las diferentes etapas de esta evolución. ...

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06/26/06

Forget about implementation, focus on results

From Phil Wainewright's blog. I'm often asked, what's the big deal with software as a service (SaaS)? If all you're doing is hosting the application instead of installing it locally, it's just an alternative delivery mechanism. So why do people talk as though it's a whole new category of software? If it were just the delivery mechanism, I would agree.This is what went wrong with packaged application software all those years ago But changing the delivery mechanism means that vendors don't have to talk to customers about implementation any more. That fundamentally changes the way vendors look at the application. It forces them to think beyond the technology and to focus on business results instead. Whenever customers have to physically implement an application on their own premises, the conversation with vendors always ends up being about the technical features of the product such as performance metrics, compatibility and interoperability. It ceases to be about the original reasons why the business people wanted to automate processes in the first place. This is what went wrong with packaged application software all those years ago when it first came out, as Rand Schulman, chief marketing officer of on-demand website analytics and digital marketing vendor WebSideStory, reminded me when we discussed this over lunch the other week. When packaged applications first arrived on the scene as an alternative to custom-built in-house sofware, it seemed like they were going to be the ultimate solution to business automation problems. But before long, all the conversations ended up being about compatibility with various platforms, and the business need ended up taking a back seat. Now, for the first time since that wrong turn the software vendors made all those years ago, on-demand applications are putting business results back into focus. The vendor has already done the implementation before even meeting the customer. The technology is already sorted, and the vendor guarantees to keep it working. What matters is whether the application meets the customer's business need. The whole conversation revolves around what the customer is trying to achieve, and whether the application can help with that. I reminded Rand that I had sat through a morning's worth of product presentations at WebSideStory's user conference the previous month. There had been nothing about how the application performed, or what database and application server platforms it ran on. It was all about what customers were doing with the applications and the business results they were achieving. That's the big deal with SaaS — by abstracting away the platform, it makes the platform irrelevant, and puts the focus back where it belongs, on what the application actually does for the customer.

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05/24/06

El Centro Unico Cooordinador IOMA-ACLIFE-FECLIBA, por dentro

El Centro Unico Coordinador IOMA-ACLIFE-FECLIBA es por así decirlo el “centro neurálgico” del convenio de la obra social provincial con las dos asociaciones de clínicas en la provincia de Buenos Aires. Para conocer más detalles del funcionamiento del mismo y, específicamente, del sistema de gestión prestacional puesto en práctica, el director de CONSULTOR DE SALUD, doctor Juan Carlos Climent, diaogó con Raúl Aguerrebehere (de MedTech, empresa proveedora del software), Horacio Rumbo (Asesor Técnico del CUC), Marcelo del Piano Coordinador de Auditoría General y la representante del IOMA, Maria Emilia Osorio, Directora de Auditoria y Fiscalización. En realidad este sistema de gestión prestacional realiza desde la carga y autorización de prestaciones, hasta su liquidación y pago. Se puede decir que este sistema implementado por el CUC tiene como características: “administración de padrones de afiliados, altas provisorias, bajas, etc. También la carga, autorización, objeción y rechazo de prestaciones en línea. Asimismo, la definición de reglas de auditoría: prácticas que no requieren autorización, prácticas que requieren autorización, restricciones de prácticas por edad y sexo del afiliado, administración de precios de las prestaciones según convenio y categoría de los prestadores, etc. Este sistema llamado “web enabled” fue proveído por la empresa MedTech.” “El sistema esta totalmente basado en web, lo que permite que los establecimientos denuncien las internaciones en el mismo y tanto las entidades intermedias, como el CUC o la obra social puedan auditar (autorizar u objetar) en tiempo real, el sistema permite la carga de prácticas ó módulos los cuales son validados (existen mas de 10 validaciones que se hacen en línea) y valorizados en el momento, esto habilita a que el establecimiento sepa en todo momento cuanto tiene en condiciones de cobrar, a fin de mes se produce el cierre y las entidades intermedias emiten la liquidación a la obra social. También es importante destacar que el sistema proveé todo tipo de informes estadísticos y proyecciones, gracias a las proyecciones la obra social en vez de enterarse 1 mes despues del cierre (cuando le llegaban las facturas) cuanto tenía que pagar, se entera 10 días antes del mismo. El sistema está funcionando desde febrero del 2003, primero se hizo una prueba con las denuncias de alta complejidad y en agosto del mismo año se incorporó el II Nivel, actualmente se cargan unas 14000 internaciones por mes, hay mas de 1500 usuarios, agrupados en 322 clínicas y en 14 distritos o entidades intermedias.”

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04/02/06

Software-as-a-Service

SaaS is fast becoming sophisticated and flexible enough to meet the needs of large companies, says Sheryl Kingstone of the Yankee Group, a consultancy, but for the next five to ten years we will continue to have a mixture.� In a survey, she found that 81% of respondents leaned towards a �hybrid� model, combining traditional software with SaaS. Microsoft, Oracle and SAP are all belatedly moving into SaaS, but they understandably prefer to characterise it as a new model that will exist alongside the traditional way of doing things, and will appeal to some, but not all, customers. So it is too soon to write the obituary for traditional software, even if its eclipse by SaaS seems to be only a matter of time. The SaaS market is growing by about 50% a year, compared with single-digit growth for traditional software, notes Mr Maynard. It doesn't mean the big guys are going to die overnight, he says, but this is where the market is heading.

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03/23/06

My top five predictions for SaaS

Posted by Phil Wainewright @ 8:14 am Digg This! I see IDC is charging $3500 for a report that, to judge from the published list of its top ten predictions, states the blinding obvious about SaaS. Here, for free, are my top five predictions that you won't read in IDC's report: * Large ISVs will continue to shoot themselves in the foot by introducing hosted versions of their conventional products that simultaneously validate the on-demand model while failing to replicate any of its advantages. * The blogosphere will turn against Google for failing to launch a hosted Office challenge to Microsoft. Meanwhile Amazon will quietly carry on expanding its presence in the on-demand market without anyone noticing. * The on-demand model will entrench itself in a range of application areas unnoticed by the mainstream software vendors, including corporate purchasing, HR management, travel and expense management and website marketing and analytics. * Integration with installed software will become the major obstacle to enterprise adoption of on-demand applications, despite vendors making large strides in integration capabilities during the year. * New licensing and billing models will gain ground and undermine the competitiveness of conventional subscription licensing, even as the mainstream software industry moves towards adopting the model. I could go on but I only have a few minutes to spare just now, so I'll leave it at that. If you want to know what everyone else thinks about the prospects for SaaS, then go ahead and buy the IDC report. If you want to know what's really going to happen, all you have to do is keep reading this blog.

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02/13/06

What makes on demand better ?

Posted by Phil Wainewright @ 11:49 am What is it that makes on-demand applications not just different, but better than conventional software? Last week, I wrote that it revolves around a focus on helping customers' businesses run better. But what does that mean in practice? Here are six distinct characteristics of on-demand applications that make them superior to conventional packaged software: Ready to run. On-demand applications are already installed,Six distinct characteristics that make on demand superior already optimized for their hardware and software platform, already tuned to perform at any scale of operation. All the customer has to do is set up their users and have them log in. Pay as you go. Customers pay for live user accounts. If users aren't able to go live, or stop using the application, customers won't pay (even if they've signed a two-year contract, the terms relate to usage). This creates a powerful incentive for vendors to make sure users go live as quickly as possible and then continue to actively use the account. Short learning curve. Users need minimal training to get started with an on-demand application. Of course if there are new skills involved then some training is required. But as the previous point makes clear, it's in the vendor's interest for users to get productive with the application as quickly as possible. On-demand vendors go out of their way to make the user interface as intuitive and self-evident as they can. Codeless customization. On-demand applications are based on a multitenant architecture that brings economies of scale by sharing the same application code across many different customers. This forces vendors to provide for customization of the application by declaring options and policies within each customer account rather than by modifying the underlying software code - with the happy side-effect that customization doesn't require programming skills. (Another great side-effect is that customizations do

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02/09/06

Big guns firing blanks at on-demand CRM

Posted by Phil Wainewright @ 2:48 am
We were supposed to be in awe of Oracle, Microsoft, SAP. But the giants of enterprise software plan have shown themselves impotent to stem the tide of on-demand CRM. None of them are even attempting to capture the market, limply settling instead for a defensive offering that might, if they're lucky, help them cling on to a few existing accounts. Nothing about Microsoft CRM or SAP CRM (I won't even start to try and untangle Oracle just yet) is going to tempt any customer with a serious itch to embrace the on-demand model. Steve Hamm's BusinessWeek story on the SAP announcement has a great quote from Salesforce.com user Fred Rosenzweig, president of SAP customer Electronics for Imaging (EFII). "There's different DNA for a traditional software company and on-demand software company," Rosenzweig says. "Salesforce.com has a very nice easy-to-use interface. They're good at listening to their customers." Translation: Traditional software is hard to use and the vendors never listen to us. Truth is, the supposed giants of enterprise software simply don't get how much of a threat the on-demand model really is. Or perhaps they do, and they've decided to best strategy is to run around squawking a lot with their eyes and ears covered up.

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01/27/06

TECH TALK: 2006 Tech Trends: SaaS, Emerging Markets

10. Software-as-a-service is happening. Yet another old model is being reinvented. Google did it to Search and online advertising, while Salesforce.com is doing it for software delivery. The traditional model of licencing software is giving way to making applications available over the Internet for companies to use. This is especially useful for small- and medium-sized enterprises who can now automate business processes without necessarily having to make big upfront investments in expensive hardware and software. Mercury News: ï¿½The office moves to the Web Documents, e-mail and spreadsheets move off your desktop computer to the Web. A host of companies big and small are building new ways to transfer the computer desktop experience onto the Web, and we expect that trend to accelerate in 2006. On the small side, companies such as Writely, Jotspot and Silveroffice are demonstrating that creating word processing documents and spreadsheets can happen just as easily on the Web as on the desktop. And having the documents on the Web makes it easier for people to collaborate.ï¿½ Internet News: ï¿½On-demand software, also known as hosted or software as a service (and formerly known as the ASP model), received nods from analysts who forecast significant penetration into the enterprise software market. Scalability issues, such as Salesforce.com 's recent outage, will continue. But small to mid-sized companies will continue to be attracted to the low monthly fees and outsourced administration that hosted applications offer. Thanks to the availability of platforms and tools from companies, including Salesforce.com and Microsoft, with its Windows Live, hosted applications will continue to proliferate and worm their way closer to basic enterprise systems.ï¿½ IDC: ï¿½IT delivery has been shifting from products to services over the past several years. But in 2006, IDC expects this model shift to accelerate. The most obvious evidence of this shift reaching a tipping point

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01/17/06

CSFB says

From Phil Wainewright's blog
Word reaches me of a new report from Jason Maynard, software analyst at investment bank CSFB, called "On Demand: The Tectonic Shift in Computing." Among several brutal assertions that leap out is this one: "It is no exaggeration to say that traditional software is already dead." Apparently, the only question mark is how long it will take for customers and vendors to realize. The report cites the adoption and proliferation of open source as another major contributor to the demise of traditional software, hastening a move away from conventional software licensing: "Eventually," says the report, "it will be nearly impossible for a software vendor to survive by building a better mousetrap - in economic terms, software pricing will fall to where it equals the marginal cost of producing the software." The report adds that, since it costs nothing to make a copy of a software product, the only way vendors will be able to make money is by delivering functional services and business processes. To help track this transformation of the software industry, the bank has launched a new index - the Credit Suisse Software On Demand Index, or CSSODI (pronounced Cassidy) for short. Originally trailed in a press release issued back in May (PDF of release), the index will be released quarterly and aims to help investors track the proportion of software industry revenues generated by the on-demand model. If the name sounds familiar, that may because Jason Maynard was also the creator of the Merrill Lynch On-Demand Index - MLODI (pronounced Melody) for short, which launched back in 2004. I do hope the current incarnation of Jason's index fares better than the Merrill version, which as far as I know only lasted for a couple of quarters. The timing of CSSODI is much more favorable, as indeed Jason's latest charts show: on-demand really is now taking hold in the mainstream software industry. It's about time Wall St, as well as the

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01/12/06

Some Predictions About the SaaS Market

Some Predictions About the SaaS Market I'd like to use this last column to make a few predictions about where I see the SaaS market going over the next 3 to 5 years. (1) This market is growing in a serious way. I would expect a company of any] size to be able to purchase all of the software function it wants and needs as a service, rather than as traditional software, installed within its own firewall, within 3 to 5 years. (2) Of course, I don't expect every company to want to move all of its IT needs to the SaaS platform in that time period. I do expect even large companies to move functions that are used only occasionally or only by small numbers of users to an outside service provider. (3) SaaS will increasingly look like a great solution for commodity problems like Email, for companies of any size. Remember, having Email supported by SaaS means outsourcing your Spam problems, too, and most of your virus problems as well. (4) Look for large traditional software players to start to seriously offer SaaS-based alternatives to their traditional software offerings. These have to be serious, full-function alternatives rather than Microsoft's recent foray into on-line services, offering incremental services to Office users, but still requiring the customer to install Office on every workstation and multiple Microsoft servers within the firewall. (5) Watch the innovator companies like Google figure out how to be SaaS vendors beyond the consumer function they offer now. Inevitably, they'll offer software to the small business market and they may decide to move beyond that into services that appeal to the remote workers of large companies, for example.

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12/20/05

Tim O'Reilly on Web 2.0

Ajax is one of the strands which epitomises the discussion around Web 2.0 and the web as platform. Tim O'Reilly captured the essence of the transition in a September essay which highlighted seven themes: 1. The Web As Platform 2. Harnessing Collective Intelligence 3. Data is the Next Intel Inside 4. End of the Software Release Cycle 5. Lightweight Programming Models 6. Software Above the Level of a Single Device 7. Rich User Experiences

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11/23/05

The latest in memoware

Microsoft has belatedly recognised the promise of web-based software Get article background EVERY few years Bill Gates, the chairman of Microsoft, issues a memo signalling an important shift for his company, and hence for the software industry as a whole. In 1995, one of his memos heralded the rise of the internet. In 2002, another memo drew attention to the growing importance of computer security. Now a barrage of memos signals the emergence of a new generation of web-based software, often called "Web 2.0". As in previous cases, what is new is not the idea itself, but the fact that Microsoft is taking it seriously. First came an internal Microsoft memo written late last month by Ray Ozzie, its chief technical officer. This was backed up a few days later by a second memo from Mr Gates himself. But Mr Ozzie's memo is the more interesting, in large part because he spent most of his distinguished software career fighting Microsoft-notably as the inventor of Lotus Notes-before agreeing earlier this year to help Mr Gates revitalise Microsoft for the coming era. At heart, said Mr Ozzie, Web 2.0 is about "services" (ranging from today's web-based e-mail to tomorrow's web-based word processor) delivered over the web without the need for users to install complicated software on their own computers. With a respectful nod to Google, the world's most popular search engine and Microsoft's arch-rival, Mr Ozzie reminded his colleagues that such services will tend to be free-ie, financed by targeted online advertising as opposed to traditional software-licence fees. As with previous memos, Microsoft is widely perceived to be late to the party. Mr Gates and Mr Ozzie have announced plans for Windows Live and Office Live, two products intended to become just the sort of free internet services that Web 2.0 is supposedly all about. But both are, in fact, little more than new names for Microsoft's existing offerings, and look feeble in comparison with services offered by

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11/22/05

Does size matter?

posted by Amy Wohl
Is SaaS for Small Companies?
When the idea of providing software as an on-line service (rather than as corporate property, purchased and installed within the company own IT system) first surfaced, most traditional software vendors were quick to point out that it was mainly for the SMB market. That was for two very good reasons: (1) It would allow them to sell software to a market they penetrated little, if at all; and (2) It would avoid cannibalizing the enterprise market to which many of them successfully directed their efforts. SaaS Appeals to Large Enterprises, Too To their surprise (and to the surprise of the market itself), the story played out differently. SMB customers are traditionally conservative buyers of technology and often wait for a new trend to be well established before they adopt it. When the ASP market (the precursor to the SaaS market) got started in the late nineties, most SMBs had never heard of the idea of buying software on line and they weren't ready to act on it. On the other hand, there were lots of enterprise buyers who readily understood the benefit of on-line software and they were often the first buyers, especially using it for short-term projects, projects that included non-employees (contractors, suppliers, customers), or remote offices (and individual users) that did not themselves have substantial IT support. As more and more of the SaaS offerings were new, net-native applications, architected to exploit the on-line environment (rather than repackaged traditional software), more SMBs found the offerings interesting, too. Enterprise Saas But some new, net-native applications have surprised us by being specifically aimed at the enterprise. They are architected to take advantage of the on-line environment (including the efficient use of hardware and the ability to provide self-service administration to users), but the applications themselves are specified and scaled with ente

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11/16/05

El significado del "MemoGates"

"Oh, no!! me olvidé de la Web!"
ésta es una pesadilla que Bill Gates tuvo antes. Como reconoce en un memo distribuido a los medios el miércoles pasado, Microsoft no previó 10 años atrás el crecimiento de la Web y de Netscape. Ahora, es tiempo de, otra vez, ponerse a la par de algún rival.
En esa década Google creció de ser un proyecto tecnológico interesante a un gigante mediático. Con la venta de licencias de software en retroceso, Gates parece estar dispuesto a apostar al modelo online bancado con publicidad.
En un email enviado a sus ejecutivos la semana pasada, Gates escribió: "La publicidad emergió como una poderosa manera de solventar la creación y distribución de software y servicios con suscripciones y licencias. Servicios diseñados para ser escalables a cientos de millones de personas cambiarán dramáticamente la naturaleza y el costo de las soluciones para empresas grandes y pymes."
Microsoft compite con Google por una parte del mercado de las buscadores, asi como de la ganancia por publicidad que los mismos generan.
En otro memo, Ray Ozzie, CTO de Microsoft definió 3 tendencias para el futuro: un modelo de negocios soportado por publicidad, uso de la Web para distribución del software con una variedad de opciones, incluyendo, software solventado por publicidad y basado en suscripciones, y servicios accesibles desde varios dispositivos y plataformas.
Ozzie es considerado el lider del cambio de Microsoft hacia los servicios basados en Web, concepto introducido por Steve Ballmer en julio.
Joe Wilcox (Jupiter Research) sostiene que Microsoft ha estado trabajando sobre este modelo de software online desde hace tiempo pero de alguna manera son iniciativas reaccionarias a los movimientos de Google, "Microsoft percive un problema que puede afectar a sus 2 vacas lecheras - Windows y Office - y quiere atacar preventivamente para protegerlas, pero no es un problema nuevo, desde que surgió la Web el Windows no es un requ

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11/09/05

Microsoft Live: Análisis

Tim O'Reilly estuvo en el evento y esto es lo que dice en su blog:
Bill Gates habló de 5 principios de su iniciativa "Live", muy similares a los puntos sobre los que yo he hablado como Web 2.0. Su lista:
- Software mas Servicios
- Server = Servicio
- Soporte para múltiples PC's y dispositivos
- Múltiples tipos de clientes
- Combinación de software en el cliente, peer to peer y servicios de internet
Microsoft esta muy comprometido con lo que yo he llamado Web 2.0 .Ellos están enfocados en internet como plataforma, en el software como un servicio, en crear interfaces complejas a través de múltiples dispositivos, en actualizaciones "live" como una metáfora para software y documentos.
Ellos también están claramente enfocados en la publicidad como un nuevo modelo de negocios (google, yahoo). Estamos escuchando de ellos las palabras típicas de la Web 2.0, AJAX, RSS, redes sociales.
Otro punto clave para mi de esta presentación fue el hecho de que Microsoft se dió cuenta de la fuerza de ser capaz de construir una experiencia integrada a través de dispositivos, aplicaciones y servicios de internet.

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11/02/05

Microsoft se lanza a desarrollar productos basados en Web

Hace unas semanas contábamos que Microsoft podía convertirse "en historia" si seguía centrándose en la experiencia del usuario con su escritorio, y basando su modelo de negocio en que nos actualicemos el Sistema Operativo y los paquetes de oficina cada tres años. Llega la era de los servicios basados en web, y de herramientas como una suite office accesible desde el navegador web, que esperábamos hubiesen sido definidas hace unos pocos días cuando el presidente de Sun nos aseguraba (horas antes de su acuerdo con Google) que "el mundo iba a cambiar". Sin embargo, ha sido Microsoft el primero en golpear y en proponernos sus nuevas herramientas, y en una amplia nota de prensa la compañía de Bill Gates nos presenta los nuevos servicios 'Windows Live' y 'Office Live'. 'Windows Live' es un conjunto de servicios personales de Internet, agrupados en un único punto, y que proporcionarán toda la información que los usuarios necesitan. Uno de estos servicios es 'live.com', un sitio web que sirve de lector de feeds, de lector de correos electrónicos ('Windows Live Mail', la prolongación de Hotmail construida con Ajax y conocido en su fase inicial como 'Kahuna'), de un mejorado buscador, y de mensajeria instantánea ('Windows Live Messenger', que será la siguiente versión de 'MSN Messenger' y que incluirá también llamadas telefónicas VoIP). Se trata de una nueva visión del concepto de 'portal' de hace unos años, pero mucho más social, al estilo de lo que pretende 'Google Fusion', la página de inicio personalizada de Google. Y 'Office Live' es un proyecto a presentar a comienzos de 2006, y que pretende ofrecer a las empresas (de manera gratuita en EEUU, pero ofreciendo publicidad) la oportunidad de crear y gestionar documentos ofimáticos, y de administrar proyectos a través del navegador web.

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10/27/05

Hackeando la vida

Extracto de un artículo aparecido en New York Times
Mucha gente se da cuenta que hacer varias tareas simultáneas en la oficina los hace improductivos. Gloria Mark es una científico enfocada en "interacciones computadora-hombre" , estudia como los dispositivos tecnológicos afectan nuestro comportamiento, ella no solo observa este fenómeno sino que puede cuantificarlo.
. En 2004, ella convenció a 2 empresas de tecnología para que la dejaran meterse en sus oficinas. Unos de sus estudiantes se pasó mas de 1000 horas mirando sobre los hombros de los empleados, observando cuantas veces los empleados eran interrumpídos y por cuanto tiempo un empleado era capaz de trabajar en una sola tarea.
Cuando Mark procesó la información, una imagen del trabajo en una oficina del soglo XXI emergió, "mucho pero de lo que pude haber imaginado", dijo. Cada empleado estaba sólo 11 minutos en un proyecto dado, antes de ser interrumpido y tener que pasar a hacer otra tarea. Lo que es peor, cada uno de esos fragmentos de 11 minutos se fragmentaban a su vez en tareas de 3 minutos como contestar emails, mensajes instántaneos, teléfono, etc.. cada vez que un empleado es sacado de una tarea, le lleva, en promedio, 25 minutos para retornar a la misma.

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10/19/05

Aplicaciones Desktop a la WEB: Google.

Autor Rodney Gorda
Mientras todavía zumban los rumores sobre los planes de Google para ofrecer un producto que compita con Microsoft Office, al menos uno de los ingenieros de la empresa asegura que en un tiempo las aplicaciones que hoy corren en forma tradicional en una pc lo harán en el explorador.
Hablando en la Universidad de Sidney, Lars Rasmussen ingeniero líder de Google Maps contó como su compañia desarrolló una aplicación para ver mapas en C++ antes de ser adquirida por Google.
"Google nos dijo: A nosotros nos gusta la WEB, que pueden hacer con su aplicación C++?", cuenta Rasmussen, agregando que en 3 semanas ya tenían algo bueno.
"Tradicionalmente un sitio web es un conjunto de páginas pero nosotros tomamos una dirección diferente con Maps, una sola página llena de JavaScript, esto permite un desarrollo rápido. el usuario final no tiene que instalar software y es multiplataforma. Maps tiene una interfase compleja, como una aplicación desktop." La semana pasada Google sacó a Maps de la versión beta y lo renombró Google Local y lanzó una nueva API, ahora hay miles de sitios que integran esa tecnología para diversa información como precios de casas ó seguimiento de huracanes.
Rasmussen dice que los exploradores ahora están lo suficientemente avanzados para permitir aplicaciones mas complejas y que esto tiende a mejorar aún mas.
"En mi bola de cristal veo muchas mas aplicaciones corriendo en el explorador para los próximos años, en algún momento la aplicación Google Earth será posible en el explorador."
Alguna personas, ahora están trabajando en migrar Google Earth a Linux, aunque Rasmussen no dio una fecha para su lanzamiento.
Rasmussen admite que diferentes exploradores ocasionan inconvenientes en la programación de aplicaciones, pero lo minimiza diciendo que no se puede comparar eso con migrar el código de PC a MAC lo que es una tarea mucho mas díficil"
Sobre el tema de un producto office para

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