Picciano didn’t refrain from taking shots at rivals Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc. “Our competition believes in disruption just for disruption’s sake,” he said to a slide illustrating a falling house of cards on which were the faces of Steve Ballmer, Steve Jobs and others.
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Wish I could have seen that. Oh, wait, I can:
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Comment posted by Charles Robinson01/21/2010 01:10:48 PM
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Two small nitpicks. First, Steve Jobs isn't on any of those cards. The one in the middle on top is Larry Ellison, wearing Steve Jobs' trademark black turtleneck. Second, it isn't a falling house of cards. It's perfectly stable. Putting Steve Ballmer as the Joker was cute, though.
I don't see what Apple or Microsoft are doing as pointless
disruption. Moving forward often requires it. It has long been argued that Lotus needed to disrupt the end user experience in Notes. Isn't that what Hannover, which became R8, was all about? As we have seen with the R8 release that is taking a few iterations to work though.
I would also contend that IBM likes complexity for complexity's sake. That's a whole different kind of disruption.
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