Ce qui rend une technologie révolutionnaire, ce n'est pas le moment de sa découverte
« If paper had just been invented, we'd consider it the marvel of our time. »
Peter Coffee, Convergence points, Why hard copy is hard to beat, eWeek, 10 mars 2003, p. 54.
« If paper had just been invented, we'd consider it the marvel of our time. »
Peter Coffee, Convergence points, Why hard copy is hard to beat, eWeek, 10 mars 2003, p. 54.
La démonstration que les NTIC ne font pas le poids devant Hollywood
« The truth is that the battle for convergence is over, and entertainment has won. (...) IT, at best, has only a supporting role. It is almost as if all IT employees lost their jobs and just want to play games and watch videos. »
« (...) in 2002, Americans spent as much going to the movies as the federal government spent on counterterrorism measures (...): nearly $10 billion. »
John Taschek, Wide angle, IT can't compete with Hollywood, eWeek, 13 janvier 2003, p. 52.
« The truth is that the battle for convergence is over, and entertainment has won. (...) IT, at best, has only a supporting role. It is almost as if all IT employees lost their jobs and just want to play games and watch videos. »
« (...) in 2002, Americans spent as much going to the movies as the federal government spent on counterterrorism measures (...): nearly $10 billion. »
John Taschek, Wide angle, IT can't compete with Hollywood, eWeek, 13 janvier 2003, p. 52.
« It's been said that God was only able to create the world in seven days because he didn't have to worry about backward compatibility. And as UK columnist Jack Schofield observed, in the context of that same joke, the difference between a good idea and a silly idea is often more in context than in the substance of the idea itself. »
Peter Coffee, Peter Coffee's enterprise IT advantage (bulletin électronique), Digging Out from Under, eWeek, 6 octobre 2003.
Peter Coffee, Peter Coffee's enterprise IT advantage (bulletin électronique), Digging Out from Under, eWeek, 6 octobre 2003.
27/06 : Que représente un téraoctet?
La récente trilogie cinématographique "Lord of the Rings" (Le seigneur des anneaux) a été tournée entièrement avec la technologie numérique, accumulant pour 150 téraoctets de données vidéo...
Evan Koblentz, ADIC, IBM bring intelligence, high capacity to tape storage, eWeek, 20 mai 2002, p. 36 et Peter Coffee, Sticking with tape – for the time being, eWeek, 12 août 2002, p. 52. Photo : IBM
10/05 : « The great IP crunch of 2010 »
« (IDG) -- Bank panics. Blackouts. Food riots. Doomsayers haven't had so much fun since, well, since Y1K. So what will they do when Y2K has come and gone? Most likely they'll set their sights on technology's next day of judgment: the Great IP Crunch of 2010.
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En ce début de millénaire, la volatilité des marchés est devenue un facteur majeur dans les relations d'affaires :
« (...) companies are having trouble keeping their best customers. The average company loses, according to various studies, between 20 percent and 50 percent of its customer base every year. With tech companies, these percentages are even higher. »
John Taschek, How to avoid a CRM failure, eWeek, 15 octobre 2001, pp. 31 et 33.
« (...) companies are having trouble keeping their best customers. The average company loses, according to various studies, between 20 percent and 50 percent of its customer base every year. With tech companies, these percentages are even higher. »
John Taschek, How to avoid a CRM failure, eWeek, 15 octobre 2001, pp. 31 et 33.
20/03 : Un monde en mutation rapide
À propos de la mutation rapide du monde de l'information, avec les fusions créant des méga entreprises d'envergure planétaire, et l'explosion du commerce électronique : « Ce n'est que le début des changements, ils vont s'accélérer. Par exemple, d'ici 15 ans, la télévision devrait être distribuée par l'Internet. »
Charles Sirois, ex-PDG de la défunte Téléglobe (communication par satellite)
Émission télévisée Le Point, Société Radio-Canada, 15 février 2000.
Charles Sirois, ex-PDG de la défunte Téléglobe (communication par satellite)
Émission télévisée Le Point, Société Radio-Canada, 15 février 2000.
