I used to post an entry everytime I flew across the ocean (which was pretty often for me unfortunately), but his one is definitely a first (for me at least). This posting is done into SDN directly from a seat in Lufthansa 454 flight en-route to Frankfurt. If this blog entry is the first SDN post from the air, I am definitely asking for an extra-credit SDN points and cool shirt for it. The experience of browsing SDN using FlyNet, the new Lufthansa service is similar to the one you get when you talk through an interpreter (although I am sure not all of you relate, you have seen it in movies), you can think fst, act quickly and have to wait for the thought to complete it's action...although when it's done the response is quite quick. In any case, I find myself multi-tasking at a higher level than before: Eating an airline meal, while watching a B-movie, and posting a blog - welcome to the new world order, where you can't escape Outlook even above the clouds. On the other hand, I now have a new story for my keynotes on the innovative processes in the flights business, given the story about self-service kiosk over extended its life. The only of value I will post in this blog is the thought of how many innovations, all based on open standards were required to get me to check my personal myYahoo page in mid-air. All of these innovations happened without single coordination, with the exception of the platform (in this case - TCP/IP and the related standards), but the result is nothing short of amazing when you put all the pieces together. The experience you get is still as simple as it is on the ground (with the exception that I had to move to another chair for some odd reason to pick up the signal for the first time). I hope that the same thing happens with our platform, and that in some years we will see all the pieces falling together into some solutions that will amaze us with an end result that will make all of us proud that we have had a small part in making it happen. In the mean time, here is one for Lufthansa, a great customer and an innovator in the sky! -shai
