"We Were Well-Paid, Latte-Drinking Vassals"

Versai's Greg Olsen hits another one out of the park: Stowe Boyd, the Guardian UK and others around how the current (and future?) crop of technology companies were self-organizing and getting things done with a minimum of infrastructure investment. Now he's taken aim at IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, Sun and the OMG, through the lens of Baroque Cycle, equating the the aforementioned companies with the Powers that ran the systems of Europe in the late 17th century. (On the subject of Stephenson, just remembered In the new software world, who is providing the illumination and Enlightenment? Intuit's QuickBase, Ning, Read the whole thing. (disclosure: versai is a customer of cerado) Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") | Yahoo! My Web Technorati: Christopher Carfi, CEO and co-founder of Cerado, looks at sales, marketing, and the business experience from the customers point of view. He currently is focused on understanding how emerging social technologies such as blogs, wikis, and social networking are enabling the creation of new types of customer-driven communities. He is the author of the