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Douglas Merrill, CIO of Google was quoted in the March 18, 2008 issue of the Wall Street Journal:
"Fifteen years ago, enterprise technology was higher-quality than consumer technology. That's not true anymore. It used to be that you used enterprise technology because you wanted uptime, security and speed. None of those things are as good in enterprise software anymore [as they are in some consumer software]."
Consumer software, especially free to very low-cost online software such as Google Docs and Basecamp have leveled the playing field for small businesses. I can't wait to see what's next. Labels: ann arbor google, basecamp, cio, consumer, douglas merrill, enterprise, Google docs, marketing technology, online, software
To help fuel development, venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers has created a $100 million 'iFund' to support new companies developing the next generation of applications for the iPhone. Kleiner Perkins partner and fund manager John Doerr said he's particularly interested in funding applications in health care.
My husband, a physician, has never owned a cell phone. Yet almost he and many of the residents in his program either have a iPhone or plan to buy one in the near future once carriers other than AT&T begin to offer it. I've run into several doctors with them in the last 2 weeks. So Kleiner is onto something...maybe the Tablet PC will never gain mass appeal in healthcare settings. It will be the iPhone.Labels: emr, health records, healthcare, iFund, iphone, physicians, software, tablet pc, venture capital
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