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NESSI Israel meeting Presentation

I presented in a meeting on September 14 th about NESSI Israeli Mirror Platform establishment. About 40 people from various Israeli companies participated in the meeting titled: NESSI- Service Based European platform for Leveraging Research & Development NESSI (Networked European Software & Services Initiative) is the European Technology Platform dedicated to Software and Services. The main focus of NESSI is that of service . See t he agenda of the meeting. The post includes my presentation in that event titled: NESSI – Is there a Vlaue Proposition for SOA in Israel

Vendors Survival: Will Google Survive until 2018?

Google is celebrating this year its 10 th anniversary.  Google is the most typical Web 2.0 company  (see my post Web 2.0 for Dummies part 4 ). It is a very successful company, changing the IT industry as well as the Web culture. Will Google celebrate it 20 th anniversary in ten years or will Google vanish? Most people's opinion is that Google will continue to dominate its traditional business areas and probably expand its business to new domains. Recently I read the book The Google Story by David A. Vise and Mark Malseed. It seems like this interesting book is biased. It is pro Google. However, the company earned my sympathy. Two Stanford doctorate students ( Larry Page & Sergey Brin ) working hard trying to build the best search engine. Their motives are more scientific than becoming rich as soon as possible. They were paving a unique lane, different from most Dot Com companies, insisting on uncommon ideas (e.g. loading the Web content into their GooglePlex )...