Time recently came out with an article entitled, “The 10 Biggest Tech Failures of the Past Decade“. Some of the features flops included Palm, Microsoft Zune, and the laughable mall-cop transport, Segway. Strangely enough, YouTube was considered a flop in terms of revenue despite its overwhelming popularity. Is money the only metric for the success of our technology?
As a huge fan of the open source movement, technology is rapidly moving to be as accessible and efficient as humanly possible. This being said, I think we need to consider our options and look to solutions not just that make fiscal sense but make our lives easier. Many of these products laid the groundwork for even better prototypes we enjoy today.
Lately at Laurus we have really been rallying around ThinIdentity, a product which helps support a virtual desktop infrastructure to improve caregiver flow to improve access to EHR (electronic health records). This allows doctors, nurses, or students to retain their work at any computer and go to another room without the hassle of logging in and out, losing data or documents, and more importantly– saving time better used elsewhere.
Laurus continues to look for strategies with intelligent design and implementation to help customers decide what’s more important for them. Is it time? Is it money? Because in this case I see both just as important.
