{"id":6659,"date":"2013-04-23T11:06:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T16:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emergenceweb.com\/blog\/?p=6659"},"modified":"2013-04-23T11:06:49","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T16:06:49","slug":"la-mort-de-sl-enterprise-une-question-de-predation-ou-de-teleportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emergenceweb.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/la-mort-de-sl-enterprise-une-question-de-predation-ou-de-teleportation\/","title":{"rendered":"La mort de SL Enterprise: une question de pr\u00e9dation ou de t\u00e9l\u00e9portation ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vous vous souvenez de <a href=\"http:\/\/secondlife.com\/\">Second Life<\/a> ??? Cette plate-forme qui a connu un succ\u00e8s mondial en 2006-2007 au point o\u00f9 son concepteur, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philip_Rosedale\">Philip Rosedale<\/a>\u00a0est devenu une vedette instantan\u00e9e du mouvement Web 2.0 encore naissant. Des articles et reportages dans la presse trad. mais aussi \u00a0des <a href=\"http:\/\/iinnovate.blogspot.ca\/2006\/11\/philip-rosedale-founder-of-linden-labs_27.html\">billets de blogues<\/a>, des podcasts et des analyses dithyrambiques de la presse sp\u00e9cialis\u00e9e et cons\u00e9cration supr\u00eame, une apparition \u00e0 TED en 2008.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/lang\/fr\/the_inspiration_of_second_life.html\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Tous les sp\u00e9cialistes supputaient le mod\u00e8le de <a href=\"http:\/\/lindenlab.com\/\">Linden Labs<\/a>, de la nouvelle r\u00e9alit\u00e9 virtuelle et de son \u00e9conomie d\u00e9clin\u00e9e en Linden Dollars. Je me souviens d&rsquo;un d\u00e9bat \u00a0\u00e0 webcom-Montr\u00e9al en 2007 entre <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michelleblanc.com\/2007\/05\/11\/impressions-yulbiz-cavazza-webcom-montreal\/\">Michelle Blanc et Fred Cavazza <\/a>sur le sujet. Et puis, un peu plus d&rsquo;un an plus tard. la plate-forme 3D sombrait dans l&rsquo;oubli et l&rsquo;indiff\u00e9rence g\u00e9n\u00e9rale.<\/p>\n<p>Longtemps, j&rsquo;ai soutenu dans mes conf\u00e9rences que l&rsquo;avenir r\u00e9sidait ailleurs pour SL. Dans les entreprises et leurs besoins en formation et r\u00e9unions \u00e0 distance, venant ainsi solutionner les vieux probl\u00e8mes de la t\u00e9l\u00e9pr\u00e9sence, non r\u00e9solus par le eLearning et la visio-conf\u00e9rence.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"second life business de emergent007, sur Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/emergent007\/4881009608\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"second life business\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4078\/4881009608_44b3e0dab7_z.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"494\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Et comme s&rsquo;ils m&rsquo;avaient \u00e9cout\u00e9 (faut bien r\u00eaver) Rosedale et compagnie ont effectu\u00e9 la reconversion en 2008, aid\u00e9s en cela par un investissement massif d&rsquo;IBM avec au mois l&rsquo;achat de 50 \u00eeles d\u00e9di\u00e9es, bien entendu \u00e0 la formation et aux r\u00e9unions virtuelles. (ci-dessous)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IBMSL de emergent007, sur Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/emergent007\/8672717433\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IBMSL\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8262\/8672717433_8191b44fbc_z.jpg\" width=\"556\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mais la sauce a tourn\u00e9 au vinaigre en 2010 avec le cong\u00e9diement de son CEO <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/person\/mark-kingdon\">Mark Kingdon<\/a>\u00a0et un changement de cap impos\u00e9 par le fondateur,\u00a0si l&rsquo;on en croit le reportage de<a href=\"http:\/\/tedid=410lang=fr\">\u00a0<\/a><a title=\"View all articles by Maria Korolov\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hypergridbusiness.com\/author\/maria-korolov\/\">Maria Korolov<\/a>\u00a0dans le magazine sp\u00e9cialis\u00e9 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hypergridbusiness.com\/2010\/08\/second-life-discontinues-enterprise-platform\/\">Hypergrid Business<\/a> :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAs Philip (Rosedale) has mentioned, Linden Lab has discontinued the Second Life Enterprise development program,\u201d Adam Nelson, Linden Lab\u2019s Executive Director of Monetization, told\u00a0<em>Hypergrid Business<\/em>. \u201cWe will continue to honor our beta customer commitments and contracts, but will not be accepting new customers for the beta product. Second Life remains a valuable tool for enterprise use, and by focusing our development on the Main Grid, we will improve the experience for all users, including enterprises.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0As part of Linden Lab\u2019s new focus on basics, the company has discontinued its Second Life Enterprise platform.\u00a0\u201cWe are working to focus on core user experience that affects all users,\u201d returning CEO Philip Rosedale told an in-world meeting July 30 that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/treet.tv\/shows\/specials\/episodes\/slmeeting-30jul10\">aired on Treet TV<\/a>. \u201cWe are stopping work on things that don\u2019t have immediate high impact on all users.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to businesses using Second Life, they can still do work on the platform \u2014 as long as do it on the main Second Life grid, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not going to do additional work on deploying Second Life behind fire wall,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to make it work better for business users using it to do work on the main grid.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hypergridbusiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Philip-Rosedale-in-avatar-form.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Philip Rosedale in avatar form\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hypergridbusiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Philip-Rosedale-in-avatar-form-550x298.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Philip Rosedale et son avatar<\/p>\n<p>D\u00e9cision incongrue et d&rsquo;une certaine fa\u00e7on motiv\u00e9e par des consid\u00e9rations \u00abpuristes\u00bb des adeptes des mondes virtuels. En effet, Rosedale et plusieurs de ses comparses n&rsquo;auraient pas aim\u00e9 le fait que des entreprises, comme IBM et d&rsquo;autres, exigent que SL soit d\u00e9ploy\u00e9e en versions clientes en-dedans du \u00abfirewall\u00bb. Donc, ce qui devait arriver arriva :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">\u00abThe problems with Second Life Enterprise started (&#8230;) when IBM walked away from the project and launched its own, competing, OpenSim-based\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 13px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www-01.ibm.com\/software\/lotus\/services\/vc4sametime.html\">Virtual Collaboration for Lotus Sametime<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">.\u00a0<\/span>The move to drop Second Life Enterprise parallels a recent decision to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hypergridbusiness.com\/2010\/08\/rosedale-promises-meshes-teen-grid-to-close\/\">discontinue the educator-friendly Teen Grid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe trend is emerging: Second Life for residential use, OpenSim for academic or corporate use,\u201d said commentator\u00a0Gwyneth Llewelyn in a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gwynethllewelyn.net\/2010\/08\/19\/linden-lab-turns-residential-opensim-embraces-business-and-education\/\">blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe already knew that Linden Lab is turning back to where their core business always was: the residential market,\u201d she said. \u201cIt shouldn\u2019t come as a huge surprise that they would not only close down their enterprise division, but also drop all products related to business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Meadhbh Hamrick, a Linden staffer who wrote much of the<a href=\"https:\/\/datatracker.ietf.org\/wg\/vwrap\/charter\/\">Virtual World Region Agent Protocol<\/a>, VWRAP, designed to help different virtual worlds relate to one another \u2014 and who was laid off earlier this year \u2014 Linden Lab is not sufficiently focused on business.\u00bb<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Une question de pr\u00e9dation ou de t\u00e9l\u00e9portation ?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mais pourquoi IBM est-il all\u00e9 se mettre le nez et les doigts dans la sauce 3D et la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 virtuelle ? Est-ce un cas de <a href=\"http:\/\/charles.nouyrit.com\/2013\/02\/08\/predation-de-linnovation-une-exception-francaise\/\">pr\u00e9dation de l&rsquo;innovation<\/a> comme l&rsquo;a d\u00e9montr\u00e9 Charles Nouyr\u00eft pour illustrer un probl\u00e8me qui pollue le milieu des start-ups en France ? Possible mais lisez bien ce qu&rsquo;\u00e9crit encore Maria Korolov en entrevue avec Peter Finn \u00a0d&rsquo;IBM :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00abWhen Linden Lab first created Second Life Enterprise it was composed of 16 regions that lived behind the firewall at IBM, IBM senior architect Peter Finn told\u00a0<em>Hypergrid Business<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 and IBM employees could teleport from their private world to the Second Life main grid and back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIBMers could take our avatars and inventory with us,\u201d he said. \u201cThe solution was very successful and extremely popular for IBM employees. We could meet in public and when we were required to share private information we would simply teleport behind the firewall. If we purchased assets in world we could deploy them behind the firewall. This is how we envisioned the metaverse would evolve as corporations, government and educational institutions came on board.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Teleportation back and forth was also possible to OpenSim worlds because of OGP \u2014 Open Grid Protocol \u2014 which later became VWRAP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believed the successful evolution of Second Life and its survival was dependent on allowing people to traverse seamlessly from public Second Life to private Second Life to public Opensim to private Opensim,\u201d he said. \u201cA single seamless experience that did not require multiple avatars, inventories and logins.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the ability to take your Second Life avatar and teleport to your private grid with your inventory was the single most common request IBM had from its customers, Finn said.<\/p>\n<p>However, Linden Lab cut off teleportation between the main grid and IBM\u2019s private grid, and teleports between the main grid and the private grid were never even an option for other corporate customers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIBM was the only company ever allowed to connect to Second Life this way and when SLE was released as a standalone \u2018walled garden,\u2019 support for the prototype environment IBM was using was removed,\u201d Finn said. Linden Lab also shut down work on the OpenSim interoperability efforts\u00bb.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Qui a raison et qui a tort ? Rosedale a coup\u00e9 les ponts pour des raisons id\u00e9ologiques alors que Finn et certains autres plaidaient pour des consid\u00e9rations \u00e9conomiques. Bref, Second Life Enterprise n&rsquo;est plus et les entreprises et les institutions scolaires qui veulent int\u00e9grer de nouveaux modes de formation passeront par <a href=\"http:\/\/opensimulator.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\">OpenSimulator<\/a>, une plate-forme qui comme le dit son nom, est en open source&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vous vous souvenez de Second Life ??? Cette plate-forme qui a connu un succ\u00e8s mondial en 2006-2007 au point o\u00f9 son concepteur, Philip Rosedale\u00a0est devenu une vedette instantan\u00e9e du mouvement Web 2.0 encore naissant. 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