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Simon Wardley and Koby Amedume of Fotango talk with Talis about commoditising IT, open source, and Zimki

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In our latest Talking with Talis podcast I talk with Fotango's Chief Operating Officer, Simon Wardley, and Chief Marketing Officer, Koby Amedume.

We discuss Fotango's take on the commodification of IT, a topic brought to the attention of many by Nick Carr in his 2003 Harvard Business Review piece and the more recent book of similar name. We also touch upon the realities of running a company that releases so much under open source licenses, illustrating the discussion with reference to Fotango's latest offering, Zimki;

“Zimki is everything you love about developing web applications plus a whole lot more. Create, build and deploy web apps quickly, cheaply and without having to worry about administrative overheads like setting up servers, buying hardware or web space.”

The conversation concludes with the announcement of the Zimki Business Application Competition, and it's £10,000 prize for the most compelling new application built on Zimki.



Listen Now | Download MP3 [37 mins, 25 Mb]

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

This conversation was conducted by telephone on Thursday 8 March 2007, edited in Audacity, and tidied up with Levelator.

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