SurfRay Management Change
July 31, 2009
Short honk: Earth Stream ran a story called “New Management Team for Search Engine Factory, SurfRay”. My last bump into SurfRay was its appearance on a Xerox Web page. I think the new chief executive officer for SurfRay is Soren Pallensen, a former VC. He has had some Vulcan mind meld with Microsoft. The company seems to be chugging along. I am not sure what a “search engine factory” is, but it is an interesting way to present the firm’s business. I wrote a monograph about Japan’s beavering away at making data. I called that study “Information Factory”. Useful word for me in 1992 or so.
Stephen Arnold, July 31, 2009
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The key to building on top of the Microsoft platform is to innovate. If you you don’t, you are simply plugging holes in the offered platform and the product team will take what you’ve done and offer it in the next release. A real company should not have a shelf life of three years.
Within three months, Microsoft will announce what is coming next (At the SharePoint Conference http://www.mssharepointconference.com/Pages/default.aspx). Any ISV that has been gap filling will see the fruit of their labor in the next product. This is not a way to run a company.
Innovation is the key to partnering w/ Microsoft as an ISV. Boolean and Wildcard just doesn’t cut it.
Martin.