Author Archives: The Unreasonablemen

26/06/2008 Posted in Design, IT, Strategy Leave a comment

The battle royal will be mobile.

By The Unreasonablemen

A guest  post from the Unreasonablemen.net The announcement yesterday about Nokia’s acquisition of the rest of Symbian clearly draws the battle lines for a new age of competition. To me this strengthens my view about Google’s Android play. For those who suffer from Nick Carr’s internet driven attention disorder, I

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03/06/2008 Posted in Business, Design, IT, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0 Leave a comment

Android – people are missing the point.

By The Unreasonablemen

A Guest post from the unreasonablemen.net There has been a bunch of commentary about Google’s mobile platform Android. Most commentators seem to be banging on about how it is going after the Apple iPhone (R/WW seems to be fixated on this aspect). This analysis misses the point. Of course Android

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21/05/2008 Posted in Design, IT, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0 1 Comment

How much downtime would you put up with from your SaaS app?

By The Unreasonablemen

A cross posting from unreasonablemen.net I’ve said before that SaaS providers need to think more about the space between their datacentres and the end user. I summarised this post by saying.. To my mind a good SaaS provider should be interested in this additional real-estate. It represents a space that

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07/05/2008 Posted in IT, Strategy 4 Comments

Can Telco symbiosis beat Skype?

By The Unreasonablemen

(A cross posting from unreasonablemen.net) A couple of posts today (Om Malik and a follow up on Skype Journal) discuss a rumoured Skype killing application that is allegedly being planned for. It seems that some of the Telco heavyweights want to build a VoIP based P2P calling service in order

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05/05/2008 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Where incumbents go wrong

By The Unreasonablemen

A guest post from the unreasonablemen.net I saw this from Ovum analysing SAP’s Q1 financials. There are a couple of take outs from this that really struck me with respect to SaaS and incumbent business models. 1) The company is still growing its core business (double digit growth no less)

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18/04/2008 Posted in Design, IT, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy 5 Comments

Has SaaS become what it disrupted?

By The Unreasonablemen

I read a piece about 2 weeks ago that gave me one of those moments: you know, when a whole lot of pieces fall into place and your mind races. It was titled You Become what you disrupt Since that moment I’ve become increasingly aware of this trend in the

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18/04/2008 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Net Neutrality

By The Unreasonablemen

There’s been a fairly long protracted debate about net neutrality happening in the US. My basic understanding is that Carriers in the US want to be able to police what goes over their portion of the internet. That is stop VoIP or P2P traffic because it damages their core revenue

09/04/2008 Posted in Economic Development, IT, New Zealand, Society, Strategy 2 Comments

No One solution

By The Unreasonablemen

Last week I wrote the post “Isn’t the answer mobile?” which created a great deal of interest, commentary & thought provoking questions. Thanks to those who commented, some of what you wrote provides the basis for this post, as well as comments on Rod Drury’s blog post about FibreCo. I

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07/04/2008 Posted in Business Leave a comment

It was never about competition

By The Unreasonablemen

In case you were wondering. The Labour government has zero interest in improving the broadband situation in this country. This report on the line just shows that the whole operational separation is a political exercise. The reports here were obtained under the official informations act… The report, dated five weeks

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01/04/2008 Posted in IT, New Zealand, Society, Strategy 11 Comments

Isn’t the answer mobile?

By The Unreasonablemen

Before I start, let me just say I’m not an engineer, so if I get some of the technical bits wrong, forgive me. But I genuinely think I’ve got the ramifications correct! There’s been a fair amount of debate about how NZ gets better faster broadband. This isn’t a simple

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The Author

Ben Kepes is an analyst, an entrepreneur, a commentator and a business adviser. His business interests include a diverse range of industries from manufacturing to property to technology. As a technology commentator he has a broad presence both in the traditional media and extensively online. Ben covers the convergance of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users. More on Ben

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