Wednesday, November 06, 2002

USDOD CTO CONFERENCE QUOTES OF THE DAY: Day two of this conference is now complete and I wanted to share a couple of fantastic quotes offered up as part of the program. INDUSTRY STANDARDS: Glover Ferguson, Chief Scientist at Accenture, opined about "standards".  "The notion of 'standards' is just another way to describe a group of companies coming together and agreeing to cease innovating on a specific technology."  He offered that standards are the right thing to create, but perhaps farther down the product/category lifecycle.  Waiting for standards to emerge for disruptive technology is bad strategy.  WEB SERVICES AND TRUST: "I think web services is going to die a painful death", said Marc Andreessen, Chairman and Co-Founder of OpsWare (also Netscape co-founder).  The comment was made during a discussion on authentication and trust of web based entities (people and devices).  I guess we know how he feels about ws-secure! 10:22:36 PM