Comments on: Is it just me, or is Intel desperate? http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/11/08/is-it-just-me-or-is-intel-desperate/ ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:39:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: gdubya http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/11/08/is-it-just-me-or-is-intel-desperate/comment-page-1/#comment-336077 gdubya Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:59:33 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/11/08/is-it-just-me-or-is-intel-desperate/#comment-336077 I don't think the point is to make money on these kinds of ventures. I think the point is to make money on the core products, by growing the overall market pie. Here is one depiction of the logic behind it all: - Web 2.0 'stuff' engages more people than ever before. - Those people have to use computers to engage. - More computers = more Intel silicon needs. Enabling an industry with more ways to use your key products is a great way to run a business. Kudos to Intel. I don’t think the point is to make money on these kinds of ventures. I think the point is to make money on the core products, by growing the overall market pie.

Here is one depiction of the logic behind it all:
- Web 2.0 ’stuff’ engages more people than ever before.
- Those people have to use computers to engage.
- More computers = more Intel silicon needs.

Enabling an industry with more ways to use your key products is a great way to run a business.

Kudos to Intel.

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]]> By: Blog Business Summit: Intel Offers Suite of "Web 2.0" Products for Small and Medium Business, Takes Some Heat http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/11/08/is-it-just-me-or-is-intel-desperate/comment-page-1/#comment-84670 Blog Business Summit: Intel Offers Suite of "Web 2.0" Products for Small and Medium Business, Takes Some Heat Sat, 11 Nov 2006 23:21:32 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/11/08/is-it-just-me-or-is-intel-desperate/#comment-84670 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] The new package from Intel, which is called Suite Two, emerged to mixed reviews from the blogosphere yesterday.Intel’s own Josh Bancroft wrote about the high cost of the software bundle, and cited all the wonderful free, open-source software out there that accomplishes the same goals. He also points out that the lack of open-source software in the bundle means that custom support will cost big bucks and users are completely at the mercy of the software developers when it comes to features.He also castigates the Suite Two website for not having an RSS feed, citing Robert Scoble’s post saying that anyone who launches a marketing website without an RSS feed should be fired.I get Bancroft’s concern about open-source software. I personally think that the open-source software movement rocks. I love that I can get advice and awesome plugins for my Firefox from a million different braniacs all over the world. But that’s not the way people do business. Intel critic Matthew Ingram wrote that the corporate crowd is so “slow-moving and dim-witted” that they need the Intel brand to get comfortable with anything new. I suppose that’s one way to look at it. But it’s not very apt.Most business types want to work with a recognized software firm they because they need to know who to call for support, and who to hold liable if software fails them. Also, lots of business people freak out when they’re offered something (great software) for nothing ($0). In business, it’s almost always sensible to assume that “if something is too good to be true, it usually is.” And sometimes, business people don’t want to be bothered with the geekery and know-how involved with going out there and finding cool software like Wordpress Multi-User, MediaWiki and Feedburner. They’re busy. They want a comprehensive, packaged, one-stop software solution that offers everything they need to start leveraging emerging technologies right out of the box. That’s what they’re really paying for here. That doesn’t make them “dim-witted,” it makes them good business people. Instead of worrying about gaining expertise in a new area, they’re outsourcing it so that they can continue to focus on what they do best.Ingram also wonders whether Intel was getting desperate. He can’t wrap his brain around why they would bundle and sell software that they weren’t directly profiting from. He speculates that Intel is just trying to get some cool “Web 2.0 pixie dust” by associating themselves with the next-gen geeks.DL Byron, who is very tight with Movable Type manufacturer Six Apart, shed some light on that question for me. “Intel is an investor in Six Apart,” he explained, “that’s what people are missing.”Do I think there are some downsides to this bundle? Absolutely. Am I mostly optimistic about its impact on business blogging? You bet your sweet bippy. [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> [...] The new package from Intel, which is called Suite Two, emerged to mixed reviews from the blogosphere yesterday.Intel’s own Josh Bancroft wrote about the high cost of the software bundle, and cited all the wonderful free, open-source software out there that accomplishes the same goals. He also points out that the lack of open-source software in the bundle means that custom support will cost big bucks and users are completely at the mercy of the software developers when it comes to features.He also castigates the Suite Two website for not having an RSS feed, citing Robert Scoble’s post saying that anyone who launches a marketing website without an RSS feed should be fired.I get Bancroft’s concern about open-source software. I personally think that the open-source software movement rocks. I love that I can get advice and awesome plugins for my Firefox from a million different braniacs all over the world. But that’s not the way people do business. Intel critic Matthew Ingram wrote that the corporate crowd is so “slow-moving and dim-witted” that they need the Intel brand to get comfortable with anything new. I suppose that’s one way to look at it. But it’s not very apt.Most business types want to work with a recognized software firm they because they need to know who to call for support, and who to hold liable if software fails them. Also, lots of business people freak out when they’re offered something (great software) for nothing ($0). In business, it’s almost always sensible to assume that “if something is too good to be true, it usually is.” And sometimes, business people don’t want to be bothered with the geekery and know-how involved with going out there and finding cool software like Wordpress Multi-User, MediaWiki and Feedburner. They’re busy. They want a comprehensive, packaged, one-stop software solution that offers everything they need to start leveraging emerging technologies right out of the box. That’s what they’re really paying for here. That doesn’t make them “dim-witted,” it makes them good business people. Instead of worrying about gaining expertise in a new area, they’re outsourcing it so that they can continue to focus on what they do best.Ingram also wonders whether Intel was getting desperate. He can’t wrap his brain around why they would bundle and sell software that they weren’t directly profiting from. He speculates that Intel is just trying to get some cool “Web 2.0 pixie dust” by associating themselves with the next-gen geeks.DL Byron, who is very tight with Movable Type manufacturer Six Apart, shed some light on that question for me. “Intel is an investor in Six Apart,” he explained, “that’s what people are missing.”Do I think there are some downsides to this bundle? Absolutely. Am I mostly optimistic about its impact on business blogging? You bet your sweet bippy. [...]

]]> By: Jim Courtney http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/11/08/is-it-just-me-or-is-intel-desperate/comment-page-1/#comment-83248 Jim Courtney Thu, 09 Nov 2006 04:14:01 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/11/08/is-it-just-me-or-is-intel-desperate/#comment-83248 I tend to look at these deals and ask -- ok -- how does this get to the customer. Now Intel OEM's processors to PC manufacturers. So is this something were a trial package will come with every Intel (Dual Core) PC via the PC mfr? But PC mfrs like to make their own bundling deals. If not, are they getting into the retail software business? But they don't have the channels for software distribution. And I can see distributors being slow to pick it up unless Intel hss done a not marketing blitz with Ingram, TechData, etc. Seems like one of those cases where they have run out of ideas on how to incrase hardware sales but then start grasping at strawa in an attemtp to associate their names with the "latest trend>' I simply say "Huh?"!! I tend to look at these deals and ask — ok — how does this get to the customer. Now Intel OEM’s processors to PC manufacturers. So is this something were a trial package will come with every Intel (Dual Core) PC via the PC mfr? But PC mfrs like to make their own bundling deals.

If not, are they getting into the retail software business? But they don’t have the channels for software distribution. And I can see distributors being slow to pick it up unless Intel hss done a not marketing blitz with Ingram, TechData, etc.

Seems like one of those cases where they have run out of ideas on how to incrase hardware sales but then start grasping at strawa in an attemtp to associate their names with the “latest trend>’

I simply say “Huh?”!!

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