Comments on: Bill Gates Sends Me an Email That Pulls Together Some Ideas I’ve Been Thinking About Recently

By: Jeff Carr

Jeff Carr — Thu, 25 May 2006 13:33:15 +0000

Great observations Dennis — I think you and Bill Gates have captured both the essence of the legal profession’s future as well as the fundamental stumbling block to getting there. I wholeheartedly agree that a source of fundamental dissatisfaction is the use of humans (although some might challenge that characterization of lawyers) to do what computers can and should do. The problem, of course, is that the structure of most law firms and the archaic and guild-like addiction to the billable hour results in a focus on inefficiency. We need to use technology to free lawyers from being purveyors of hours clients neither need nor want and return to being providers of valuable counsel.

By: Noel

Noel — Tue, 23 May 2006 21:25:32 +0000

Enterprise-enabled search leads into enterprise-enabled collaboration. I’m looking for who can pick up on the primacy of search and the URL a la web 2.0, but keep the data secured and sharable.

By: Rob Robinson

Rob Robinson — Thu, 18 May 2006 14:18:40 +0000

Excellent post Dennis. As a product manager at the top of the dot com boom (Compaq) during the late 90s, we stratified the “business priorities” as:
1) Connecting
2) Communicating
3) Collaborating
4) Commerce – ing
And used the following categories to “bucketize” our software solutions offerings:
1) Protection
2) Productivity
3) Performance
Thanks for the post – and having just implemented a hosted sharepoint solution – I certainly can see the interest in using it as a “platform”,