the kingmakers stump pitch for IBM Impact event

1. Developers: New Kingmakers
10.20.2005
Digital London March 2012

2. Software is eating the World
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3. The Developers Strike Back
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4. Fragmentation of Everything
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5. Explosion of Forms
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6. Forage
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7. Then Forge
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8. On Quality
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9. Craft Trumps Outsourcing
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10. Microsoft vs Apple
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12. No Permission Required
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13. When Web Companies Grow Up
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14. Language Tiers
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15. Developers Drive Microsoft Strategy
“We saw more and more people were
writing cloud applications in Java.”
- Amitabh Srivastava, Microsoft SVP Server and Cloud Division, announcing
“first class support” for Java in Azure
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16. A New Realism
“We need to think more like the web…. one stack to run
them all has gone away. This stuff about single vendor
stacks is behind us. The days of recruiting developers to
where you are is over. You have to go to where they are.”
Tim O’Brien Microsoft Platform Strategy Group
general manager
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17. Rise of the APIs
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18. Rise of the API Giants
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19. Credits
Photos:
SF in Cloud – SF Chronicle
Craftsman – A. Davey on Flickr
VC chart data from the National Venture Capital Association and the
Center for Venture Research, via @cbtacy from AppFog
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