Jeff Nolan and ‘Teqlo’ October 6, 2006
Posted by technologydriven in General.trackback
Jeff Nolan, who left SAP ventures a month ago, is now working for ‘Teqlo‘, a startup that wants to build some kind of application to build mashups, without programming:
“Back in the day when personal computers first were wired together, they came together as LANs, not WANs. LANs were/are business networks and document sharing was how people collaborated. Lotus Notes emerged as a way for people to do on LANs what everyone does on WANs today – send messages, move attachments around, review and approve documents, etc. Lotus Notes was a powerful way to weave document-centric collaboration into Office 1.0.
Today the Web is the new LAN. We are all connected. Everything is a few hops away. We no longer need help to share data, but collaborative processes around anything with complexity or exceptions, a.k.a. real life, is still hard.
So we hope to open Teqlo.com initially as sort of a Lotus Notes for the Web Generation, but process-centric, not document-centric. Teqlos will be for consumers and businesses, because we all collaborate and the Web is the platform.” (more)
Sounds very interesting…
(from it@cork)
By the way, Jeff Nolan doesn’t seem to think much of big software vendors like his former employer SAP any more, as you can read here.By the way, the reason why Jeff Nolan left SAP is because he sees no future (generally and especially for himself) in a large, publicly traded company like SAP that has to be conservative in it’s acting and is “responsible to many constituencies”. Yo can read more on that here and here.
actually I do think very highly of SAP, which is why it was such a tough decision to leave. Having said that, I do think that there is an overly conservative approach to some new models to the business that could result in SAP being more dominant. It’s tough to remake your business when the one you are replacing is very successful in it’s own right. As I have written on several occasions, SAP leadership is responsible to many constituencies because of the fact that they are a large publicly traded company.
The SOA-ification of SAP through NetWeaver is a brilliant strategy, one that my new company should would be fortunate to piggyback on.
Ok, so please forgive me for that misunderstanding. Anyway, it will be exciting to watch how the big ERP-vendors will handle the shift of paradigms we see today. Some even think their end is near. I would not agree to that, but surely the market will look very different in 10 years, with perhaps a bigger share for companies like your new one…