Rant on Decentralized Communications (P2P)
I know... I know... this is starting to sound like a Ray Ozzie debate board, but I do want to point something out. I have been listening to this guy for some time, and I have played with Groove's software, but I guess I just don't get it.
In his weblog, he just keeps going on and on about communities, and decentralized communications:
"Center vs. edge. Orchestrated organization vs. self-organization. Business process vs. business practice. Fragility vs. resiliency. Complexity vs. chaos. Control vs. empowerment."
This is all well and good, but let's be honest here. No business is going to use peer-to-peer for true business activity. Businesses have to centralize information and process. That is what they have been trying to perfect for the past fifty years. Peer-to-peer is great for unstructured communications that are not results-oriented, but it simply won't work in the business sector.
Communities are cool. This weblog is an iteration of that. But they are pasttimes, not work. Work in a decentralized mode is inherently unproductive. Now maybe Mr. Ozzie is going for the private market- kids "IM"ing each other in class. That is something, but let's not pretend that the world is going to change because of it.
8:57:51 AM 
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