John Gallant Spotlights Top Network News and Issues in VORTEX Digest

VORTEX Digest
John Gallant Spotlights Top Network News and Issues
Comments to: mailto:jgallant@vortex.net
August 19, 2005
Volume 6, Number 48
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In This Issue:
* Is enterprise IT deadly dull? Is IT even an advantage? John
debates Tom Foremski of SiliconValleyWathcher.com.
* A multimedia gift for you: The audio of our Churchill Club
panel discussion is available for your listening (podcast, etc.)
pleasure.
* Red Hat's CEO on the future of open source at Vortex 05
* Subscription information
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"The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but
those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you
know."

Napoleon Bonaparte

Dear Vorticians,

I'm back from the land of black bears, black flies and
blueberries, and I've posted the following items in the Vortex
blog for you this week. As always, I welcome your feedback,
either in the blog comment area or via email at
mailto:jgallant@vortex.net. I'm particularly interested in your
views on our first item of discussion.

- Former Financial Times tech writer Tom Foremski runs an
insightful, useful Web site called SiliconValleyWatcher.com -
some of you may already peruse it regularly. Geoffrey Moore and I
met with Tom recently to talk about the enterprise IT market and
Vortex 05. Tom's a smart guy, but we're 180 degrees away from
each other on the future of enterprise IT. For Tom, IT is "deadly
dull" and it's never provided a competitive edge to anyone. We
wrestle over these ideas in a series of postings. Read 'em and
share your insights. Start with
http://www.networkworld.com/weblogs/vortex/2005/009795.html and
then take a gander at
http://www.networkworld.com/weblogs/vortex/2005/009801.html.

- Also, before leaving on vacation I described for you a
terrific panel discussion that Geoff and I conducted with Cisco's
Randy Pond and Fred Matteson of Fireman's Fund. You can find the
audio for this session here:
http://www.networkworld.com/weblogs/vortex/2005/009787.html

That's it for now. Be in touch. mailto:jgallant@vortex.net

Bye.

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