ANTIQUE SOFTWARE – LETTING LICENSES LAPSE We will let our licenses lapse next mo

ANTIQUE SOFTWARE – LETTING LICENSES LAPSE

We will let our licenses lapse next month.

We no longer need Atlassian’s Jira, Agile or Confluence. We will never need Microsoft’s CRM or Salesforce, or Sharepoint, or Dynamics PSA, or Exchange, or Changepoint, or FunctionPoint, or recruiting software, or even Outlook.

They’re ‘antiques’.

Remnants of a past era. The remaining artifacts of the 80’s.

We know the model that replaces Word. (Final Draft, Scrivener and Ulysses, and we know markdown and css replace RTF.)

We know the model that replaces Outlook (Oversing and Facebook).

We know the model that replaces standalone CRM packages.

We know that there isnt’ any value from an accounting system beyond what the high end of Sage Provides.

We can’t eliminate Excel yet, but we can best it in the next decade.

It will take us three versions to finish it all. And of course, we can blow it. But the model is done. Oversing’s the model.

Oversing’s the killer app for managing a business – no more looking in the rearview mirror.

“Everything in context”. 😉

I remember telling Stephen Elop over lunch that this revolution was coming and that the entire cultural model would have to change with the next generation…. while he stared at me over salad. (I told you he would be a disaster for Nokia. Microsoft internal success is a contrary indicator of competency, because it is so abnormal an organization – entirely insulated from the market and its effects by the network effect and the consequential rent seeking on windows investments.)

Everything in context. LOOKING FORWARD.