links for 2007-08-18

“The emphasis in software is shifting away from software to the services it enables”

Rettig rails against complexity in IT … Andrew McAfee has a slightly different view on return: http://blog.hbs.edu/faculty/amcafee/index.php/faculty_amcafee_v3/are_enterprise_systems_part_of_the_problem_or_the_solution/

McAfee presents an alternative viewpoint to Cynthia Rettig in MIT Sloan MR …
“if IT were not delivering value, rational decision makers would not keep investing in it” – not 100% sure I agree but it’s a good discussion

Starting work on portable personal social networks … bring it on!