I’ve been talking a lot @ work about our needs to manage our vendor relationships better, and empower and hold responsible our employees more, in an effort to reduce vendor lock-in & better satisfy the users of a company’s technology.

Google is a great case study in what happens when you put the power of open source and business objectives in the hands of your company architects & engineers.

If VP’s are responsible for business results why are engineers not responsible for more of the infrastructure and those types of results. Much of it’s engineering but a lot of it is emerging standards/blueprints like these.

I’ve always said that a relationship doesn’t start or end with a transaction, it’s so very true. I love that feeling when there is a project for something you’ve felt for a long time, many times it takes a person like you–or Chris Saad for instance–to get it moving.

Thanks again & bravo!

P.S. Looking forward to diving into the VRM concept more later today.)