The thought that Notes is dead is dead

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Dead is dead. There are no degrees of death. Death is, literaly, terminal (in this life at least).

There's 'fatally ill', 'at death's door', and you can have 'one foot in the grave' while being 'deathly pale' or have a 'near death experience', and you can be found 'walking in death's shadow' etc. etc. - but one cannot be 'a bit dead'...

I'm not sure about announcing the death of any of the things on your list - with the possible exception of The West Wing (providing your limiting your prophecy to the TV program).

As to your rankings - reading them in terms of terminal timescale (1 = shortest life epectancy etc.) well some of us have never really understood Lotus Notes reason for living in the first place. If my experience is any guide the proportion of corporate users (surely the most likely to find value in Notes?) is tiny. A new version of Notes must surely be 'dead on arrival'?

Lotus now lives on in name only - a case of a 'dead man walking'?

Office is 'living on borrowed time'. But Microsoft has the marketing power to give it CPR - though it will need electro-shock to be brought back to conciousness post 2007.

There as been much talk, led by Salesforce, of the death of software. I am reminded of Mark Twain's: "The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated."

MSN (or online portals in general?) are dead? I didn't even know they were sick... Surely MSN is making money (about enough to pay back Microsoft's original investment in another twenty years, true, but making a profit seems like a long way from being measured up for one's coffin. Or, perhaps you are alluding to Microsoft's response to Google & Salesforce - and the probable re-invention of MSN as a Software-as-Service Gateway? That sounds more like a case of re-birth, or reincarnation, than death.

Mainstream Media is definitely a case of the 'Living Dead'. Lets just hope the vampires are not strong enough to bite New Media deep enough to turn us all into blood-sucking zombies. Start distributing free OS-only PCs and garlic now - to ward off the evil.

Citizen journalism was still-born.

The West Wing. I was never a fan. It's death will go unmourned whenever the inevitable drop ratings pressure finally finishes it off.

PageRank. As I have previously warned - Google investors are about to get a free bubble bath...

Top Ten lists are history. Bottom Ten lists rule!

Happy Friday. See you in the bar later.

Posted by: Stephen Wheeler   Posted on: 01/27/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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