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I've gone to a lot of keynotes over the years and the same topics keep coming up: Software is eating the world! Change or die! buy our products!

In doing the keynote for some of our roadshows recently (Austin, Houston, Cincinattie, and Columbus) I put together a slightly snarky talk looking at those cliches. It all started with me writing up a blog post on a plane however, which was just published over on the Pivotal blog.

The point is to make sense of those topics and see what exactly they mean.

Here's the slides from the talk as well:

(And yes, I realize there's actually four and that those are camels. Jokes within jokes!)