Six Webs

Bill Joy, the inventor of Berkeley Unix, the founder of Sun Microsystems, and now a partner at Kleiner Perkins talks about 'Six Webs'. Excerpts from the Technology Review blog:

Bill Joy's six Webs are:

1. The Near Web: This is the Internet that you see when you lean over a screen - like a laptop.
2. The Here Web. This is the Internet that is always with you because you accesses it through a device you always carry - like a cell phone.
3. The Far Web. This is the Internet you see when you sit back from a big screen - like a television or a kiosk.
4. The Weird Web. This is the Internet you access through your voice and which you listen to - say when you are in your car, or when you talk to an intelligent system on your phone, or when you ask your camera a question. Joy concedes that this Web does not yet fully exist.
5. B2B. This is an Internet which does not possess a consumer interface, where business machines talk to other business machines. It is chatter of corporations amongst themselves when they do not care about their human drones.
6. D2D. This is the Internet of sensors deployed in meshes networks, adjusting urban systems for maximum efficiency. This Web also does not yet exist. Joy says that it will embed machine intelligence in ordinary, daily life

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Coming end of Enterprise software shakeup

Strategy + Business has a nice article on how Enterprise software is heading for a shakeup [Reg. required]

Five years ago, 11 companies controlled 90 percent of the databasemarket; now only six do. In business applications, the trend is evenmore pronounced: Seventy percent of the market is now controlled byjust 35 companies, compared with more than 120 companies in 2000. Suchhigh-profile deals as Oracle’s recent acquisitions of Siebel andPeopleSoft have left only two vendors to choose from, Oracle and SAP,for top-tier integrated suites.

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