Comments on: Lawrence Liu Jumps Ship http://blog.strategicheading.com/2008/10/19/lawrence-liu-jumps-ship/ G. Oliver Young's blog about business strategy and technology. Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:04:17 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Oliver http://blog.strategicheading.com/2008/10/19/lawrence-liu-jumps-ship/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Oliver Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:51:18 +0000 http://blog.strategicheading.com/?p=4#comment-4 Hi Lawrence, Please accept my apologies for catching you off guard with the blog post; I am in the process of setting up the blog and was looking to get some content in while I continue to fix the look and feel and add features. In this case the process was a bit out of order. As for the SharePoint/Telligent relationship, clearly the two applications can be quite complimentary. Community Server is a solution that Microsoft cannot offer today, and Evolution appears to be a substantial upgrade over the out of the box functionality in MOSS 2007. However over the long run I fully expect SharePoint and Evolution to come into direct competition and I have to believe that you personally are well positioned to navigate that competition in the future. Hi Lawrence, Please accept my apologies for catching you off guard with the blog post; I am in the process of setting up the blog and was looking to get some content in while I continue to fix the look and feel and add features. In this case the process was a bit out of order.

As for the SharePoint/Telligent relationship, clearly the two applications can be quite complimentary. Community Server is a solution that Microsoft cannot offer today, and Evolution appears to be a substantial upgrade over the out of the box functionality in MOSS 2007. However over the long run I fully expect SharePoint and Evolution to come into direct competition and I have to believe that you personally are well positioned to navigate that competition in the future.

]]> By: LL's Community Zen Master Blog http://blog.strategicheading.com/2008/10/19/lawrence-liu-jumps-ship/comment-page-1/#comment-3 LL's Community Zen Master Blog Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:23:35 +0000 http://blog.strategicheading.com/?p=4#comment-3 <strong>Answers to FAQs from analysts, SharePoint customers/partners, and SharePoint sales/marketing folks...</strong> Oliver Young, a Forrester analyst for whom I have great respect, recently posted this blog entry about... Answers to FAQs from analysts, SharePoint customers/partners, and SharePoint sales/marketing folks…

Oliver Young, a Forrester analyst for whom I have great respect, recently posted this blog entry about…

]]> By: Lawrence Liu http://blog.strategicheading.com/2008/10/19/lawrence-liu-jumps-ship/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Lawrence Liu Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:46:26 +0000 http://blog.strategicheading.com/?p=4#comment-2 Oliver, I intend to help Telligent become an even better/bigger partner for SharePoint than less. During the past two weeks that I've been officially onboard, we've had numerous opportunities brought to us by the Microsoft field, many of which involve Community Server Evolution in conjunction with SharePoint. Both Microsoft and its customers of SharePoint see Telligent as complementary rather than competing. I believe that Telligent will (continue to) be tremendously successful in the market at the expense of our competitors much more so than SharePoint. Sure, I know all about SharePoint warts and gaps, but I also know its advantages and immense potential, which is why SharePoint customers (and partners) should look to Telligent as the go-to SharePoint partner for social computing and online community value add. My departure from Microsoft and SharePoint could not have been more amicable. I'm proud to be able to call *all* of my former Microsoft colleagues .. genuine friends, and I've already called on and talked with many of them about customer referrals and partner opportunities. And they know that they can call on me to assist with just about anything related to social computing, online communities, and beyond. Re: Sam Lawrence, we've met in person and shaken hands back in June, but we remain fierce competitors. I respect him, and I hope that he respects me. Competition is good because it pushes our respective companies and collective industry forward more quickly, which ultimately benefits our customers/partners. If you want to be briefed on Telligent's product plans and/or platform strategy, please ping me directly at LLiu@Telligent.com. Thanks! Lawrence Liu Director of Platform Strategy Telligent Oliver, I intend to help Telligent become an even better/bigger partner for SharePoint than less. During the past two weeks that I’ve been officially onboard, we’ve had numerous opportunities brought to us by the Microsoft field, many of which involve Community Server Evolution in conjunction with SharePoint. Both Microsoft and its customers of SharePoint see Telligent as complementary rather than competing.

I believe that Telligent will (continue to) be tremendously successful in the market at the expense of our competitors much more so than SharePoint.

Sure, I know all about SharePoint warts and gaps, but I also know its advantages and immense potential, which is why SharePoint customers (and partners) should look to Telligent as the go-to SharePoint partner for social computing and online community value add.

My departure from Microsoft and SharePoint could not have been more amicable. I’m proud to be able to call *all* of my former Microsoft colleagues .. genuine friends, and I’ve already called on and talked with many of them about customer referrals and partner opportunities. And they know that they can call on me to assist with just about anything related to social computing, online communities, and beyond.

Re: Sam Lawrence, we’ve met in person and shaken hands back in June, but we remain fierce competitors. I respect him, and I hope that he respects me. Competition is good because it pushes our respective companies and collective industry forward more quickly, which ultimately benefits our customers/partners.

If you want to be briefed on Telligent’s product plans and/or platform strategy, please ping me directly at LLiu@Telligent.com. Thanks!

Lawrence Liu
Director of Platform Strategy
Telligent

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