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You Can’t Separate Enterprise and Consumer Technology Anymore (CITE World)
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An emerging meme is distorting the way we should be thinking about technology and use and application of technology. It says that enterprise technology and consumer technology are two different things, and the two will never meet. It goes on to say that if you want to be successful in one market, you need to shun the other, as you’ll only be distracted. It shows up in the advice of pundits advising Microsoft to split into two or more companies. It even showed up in the words of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer earlier this week — “Consumer executives and enterprise executives have just different traits,” she explained. “I would hope they [Microsoft] are looking for people who are strong on the enterprise side of the business.”…
