"Much of the ability to create and maintain valuable brands, as a consequence, has migrated away from the product and to the channel because, for the present, it is the channel that addresses the piece of added value that is not yet good enough" The Innovator's Solution, Page 164-165

With 2010 and the beginning of a new decade a new era of computing technology and architecture, commonly referred to as 'cloud computing', emerged following the revolution of virtualisation in the datacenter and on the desktop during the latter half of the previous decade.

Now that a full week has passed since this year's Open World Forum I've had the time to reflect on the experience and I'll now share my thoughts...

Just before the forum was officially opened I managed to set time aside to attend the Olliance Open Source Think Tank. The format was typical of workshops with attendees arranged around several circular tables in a room. There was a polite request to restrict tweeting attendees' opinions during the 2 day event thus I can't tell all.

It's been just over a year since I've been living in France and during this time one of my favourite passtimes has been learning and of course tasting wine.  It's not so much that I'm in charge of buying the wine just that I've been the one doing most of the domestic shopping!

I should be writing this post about 6 hours earlier than I actually am however, I confess I gave way to the temptation of playing Battlefield: Bad Company 2 for the first time with my clan in the UK. I love it - it's fun to have a new game to play especially after a busy and at times rather intense week of open source goodness.