Pretty funny. Made me think of "Architecture Oriented Architecture" which focuses on the architecture aspects of architecture development instead of all the other stuff that we seem to glom onto.
:-) -Rob --- In [email protected], "Gervas Douglas" <gervas.doug...@...> wrote: > > <<Since I left Oracle last January, I've been spending time looking > around the technology industry for interesting trends. Sooner or later > I will have to take a job, so this is my chance to pick a horse that > will be fun to ride. > > There are now roughly one million Software-as-a-Service companies per > square mile in Silicon Valley (they are thicker than that in Palo > Alto, but Stanford has always been peculiarly fecund). Even Microsoft > is on the bandwagon, so you can be sure that SaaS has jumped the > shark. Just lately, I've seen pitches for Data-as-a-Service, > Hardware-as-a-Service and Infrastructure-as-a-Service. > > Here at the Subclock blog, we're getting out in front of this thing. > I'm pleased to announce today the creation of Service-as-a-Service. > Want to start your own -as-a-Service company, but not sure what that > means, exactly? Just set your business plan down on top of > Service-as-a-Service and let that advertising revenue roll in! In > fact, Service-as-a-Service is itself built on Service-as-a-Service. > It's turtles all the way down, baby! > > Service-as-a-Service takes advantage of all the latest Web buzzwords. > It's platform-enabled, naturally. It's fully cloud-compliant. We > leverage community. Our tech is simultaneously green and clean. We've > sprayed so much Xen around here that the floors are sticky. > > Service-as-a-Service isn't a company. It's way more Valley than that. > Think big O'Reilly-style unconference, with probably some blogs and a > wiki. Think Facebook, but cooler. Think tweet storm. Most of all, > think huge VC investment opportunity. Got an office on Sand Hill Road? > Give us a call here at the Subclock blog -- operators are standing by.>> > > You can find this at: > > http://subclock.blogspot.com/2008/04/next-big-thing.html > > Mike Olson comes across as a quietly unassuming but obviously > successful individual when you meet him. He also has the humility to > listen, so I am sure he will be happy to take your advice on this > revolutionary concept..... > > Gervas > > Gervas >
