Anne Truitt Zelenka

Stowe gets the “you’re an edge case” treatment from 37Signals when he tells them he considers it “a basic flaw that Basecamp doesn’t support a federated model of work.”

James McGovern: “What would happen if industry vertical standards bodies instead embraced the notion of Microformats? We understand that this would put a damper on all the SOA kool-aid they’ve been drinking lately.”

Hard user data (tag clouds, feature usage frequency, etc.) gives SaaS a big advantage over traditional software when it comes to figuring out what to put in the software going forward.

James: “the new world is networked, and its really hard to build networkedness into applications and processes after the fact.”

Shared services, the business architecture, drives (or should drive) SOA. Without a business reason to centralize a particular service, why implement software that way?

Henry Blodget: “I am still not convinced that office-productivity tools a la Word and Spreadsheet are Google’s best route to revenue diversification. They offer usage diversification, certainly, but, so far, no revenue diversification.”

Peter Rip: “Automating the white space between us is the last untapped source of Big Win in the Enterprise.”