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December 11, 2007
Comparing Virtual World Platforms for the Enterprise
Check out this comparison of Virtual World platforms by Tony O'Driscolls MBA students who looked at various features across seven platforms. Guess which one ranked lowest in terms of features relevant to enterprise applications? Second Life. This fits with Gartner Chief Analyst Steve Prentice's remarks at the Enterprise Virtual Worlds workshop in London that Second Life is the last place companies should look for internal virtual world applications (but many continue to look there first!) I think that can be a still be a good thing though, as long as expectations are managed during the exploration and costs are minimized (you have to leave what you build when you decide security,stability and interoperability ARE important and switch/expand on other platforms).
Tony has been researching virtual worlds at IBM before recently leaving for a University teaching post. His blog Learning Matters has a lot of insight and thorough analysis, check it out here. He's also speaking this week at the eLearning Guild virtual worlds online conference.
Posted by Ron Edwards at December 11, 2007 10:00 PM
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