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Yankee Ingenuity
A cynic rips open source
05-10-07
I chaired an interesting meeting the other day. It was me against senior executives of Cisco, Agilent Technologies and Novell.
OLPC and unintended consequences
07-31-06
Last week I held that low-cost computer in my hands. It was built by Nicholas Negroponte and his team at the One Laptop Per
Child project in Cambridge, Mass. It hasn't hit the $100 price tag just yet - the cost is about $140 now, but is still coming
down - and you won't be able to buy it in any store, but millions of kids around the world will be getting one for free.
Microsoft vs. Cisco: The new clash of the titans
06-12-06
A few years ago I suggested to both Cisco CEO John Chambers and Bill Gates that the day was coming when their companies would
be competing against each other. Each replied that I once again had my head up my rear, that they had nothing but respect
for each other and their spheres of influence were completely different. Both were lying through their teeth. Kind of like
Don Corleone saying that Barzini was his blood brother for all time.
The future of disruption
04-24-06
Clay Christensen dropped by my class at MIT the other day to talk about disruptive technologies in communications. Christensen,
a Harvard Business School professor and author of The Innovator’s Solution, pointed out that the incumbent company rarely
loses its best customers because it always immediately addresses any foray by an upstart.
Brother Bill and the next Holy War
06-27-05
When we look at Sun's Scott McNealy or Oracle's Larry Ellison, we see successful executives who every once in a while get
tired of the game and take a physical or mental time out. Not Gates. He has just what he wants: a new Holy War.
India, China duke it out
03-07-05
The Chinese are aggressive and determined that they will remain the world's factory. The Indians are entrepreneurial and are
beginning, quietly, to consider outsourcing some of their software development to even lower-cost countries - such as China.
Venture capitalist offers look at '05 hot spots
01-10-05
Let's get right to it. Let's see what this year portends.
Contact info
Anderson is senior managing director of Yankeetek, a Cambridge, Mass., venture incubator. He is also founder of The Yankee Group and the William Porter Distinguished Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mail Anderson.
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