Dave Winer has the Scoop: Ozzie, Gates, and SaaS

Philosophy

Rainer Maria Rilke

When we win it's with small things,
and the triumph itself makes us small.
What is extraordinary and eternal
does not want to be bent by us.
I mean the Angel who appeared
to the wrestlers of the Old Testament:
when the wrestler's sinews
grew long like metal strings,
he felt them under his fingers
like chords of deep music.

Whoever was beaten by this Angel
(who often simply declined the fight)
went away proud and strengthened
and great from that harsh hand,
that kneaded him as if to change his shape.
Winning does not tempt that man.
This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively,
by constantly greater beings.

November 08, 2005

Robert Scoble has posted links to Dave Winer's site, where the Ray Ozzie memo I mentioned earlier has been posted, in full and complete form, along with Bill Gates' "turn the ship" email. Worth reading.

[Updated: Now I think you can see that this is not just about Web 2.0, it's about Microsoft 4.0 which will be a service-based computing platform for the industry - not just an inward-looking "sell our software differently" approach.]

[Update 2: A well-written article in the WSJ discusses the meaning of all this.]

November 08, 2005 at 11:49 PM | Permalink

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