Tim O'Reilly
Tim O'Reilly
Tim O'Reillyis the founder of O'Reilly Media. He popularized the terms open source and Web 2.0...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth6 June 1954
CountryIreland
thinking succeed microsoft
I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue to succeed. But I think the business model of Microsoft is going to have to change.
being-wrong
Being too early is indistinguishable from being wrong.
horse needs belief
My basic belief is you need to ride the horse in the direction that it's going.
architecture trump licensing
Architecture trumps licensing any time.
jobs doe form
We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does.
opening-up collaboration possibility
The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration.
data next data-science
Data is the next Intel Inside.
moving revolution computer
Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform.
opportunity type models
There's not a single business model, and there's not a single type of electronic content. There are really a lot of opportunities and a lot of options and we just have to discover all of them.
thinking people microsoft
I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak.
black-and-white strange rich
Share what you do profusely, because it will be remixed by others into something new, rich and strange.
mistake thinking marketing
The biggest mistake we see companies make when they first hit Twitter is to think about it as a channel to push out information.
people marketing matter
No matter your sector, chances are that people are already twittering about your products, your brand, your company or at least your industry.
technology trying fundamentals
Anyone who puts a small gloss on a fundamental technology, calls it proprietary, and then tries to keep others from building on it, is a thief.