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Small titbit from Parlay conference Osaka
May 10, 2005
I'm at the Parlay conference in Osaka, Japan this week. A small, but useful statistic from today's sessions was as follows:
- Number of companies worldwide who can develop Intelligent Network applications: 300
- Number of companies worldwide who can develop traditional IT applications : 800,000
This summarises in capsule form one of the drivers behind Parlay - the push to open up the telecom network to the potential innovation and development power of (in theory) 800,000 companies (yes, companies, not developers). Even factoring in the ususal "reality filters" to these numbers - it's a dramatic illustration of how open APIs like OSA / Parlay could transform the telecom landscape over the next few years.
Posted by Sean at May 10, 2005 04:48 PM
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