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By: John

John — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:37:01 +0000

Vince,
Thanks for the comments. As you well know, like you, I am a strong proponent of these 3 platform plays. Yes, there is some concern that developers may not look to Dossia first as a platform to develop for as the potential market, as you stated is small in comparison to Google and Microsoft.

But there are a few things that weigh in favor of Dossia.

It remains to be seen whether or not Google will really take this market seriously. They have BIG plans to capture the mobile search market with Android and the desktop with Chrome. These are what the best and brightest at Google are currently working on. In comparison to these two initiatives, Google Health is but a flea at the end of a very long tail.

Despite Microsoft’s more aggressive investment o resources it is currently relying heavily on the small vendors sitting atop of HealthVault to do the marketing and bring the users. This is a flawed strategy and one that many vendors/developers wll struggle with.

Dossia does potentially attract a core 10M employees right off the bat, or at least quickly in comparison to the two above. Also, Dossia is “Open Source” which definitely will be attractive to a certain sector of the development community. Thus, I do believe Dossia has the potential to develop an ecosystem, but as I stated in the post, they have to move a lot faster than they have demonstrated to date.

By: Vince Kuraitis

Vince Kuraitis — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:02:40 +0000

John,

Well reasoned.

Let me first note that I’m a big supporter of this new ecosystem and Dossia.

That said, I see Dossia’s big challenge will be to build and attract useful and innovative applications.

If you’re an application developer or vendor, you’ll see that Google Health and MS HealVault are being offered to an available market of 300M Americans, and eventually to a world market up to 6B people. You’d see that Dossia has an employee membership base of about 10M. Where are you going to spend your time and energy?