{"id":380,"date":"2005-10-29T13:46:11","date_gmt":"2005-10-29T17:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=380"},"modified":"2005-10-31T10:47:23","modified_gmt":"2005-10-31T14:47:23","slug":"sun-wall-street-really-a-mmorpg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=380","title":{"rendered":"Sun: Wall Street Really A MMO(rp)G"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via an SL Future Salon <a href=\"http:\/\/slfuturesalon.blogs.com\/second_life_future_salon\/2005\/10\/historyfuture_g.html#comment-10728453\">entry<\/a> comes this interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.next-gen.biz\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=1418&#038;Itemid=2\">link<\/a> to a Next Generation article where Sun Microsystems basically comes out and boldly announces what so many people have been saying for some time (perhaps years). Here&#8217;s a quote from Sun&#8217;s chief gaming officer, Chris Melissinos: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I argue that we&#8217;ve been the principle architect of the largest massively multiplayer online game in the world. It&#8217;s Wall Street. If you took a look at all of the mechanics that go in to building an online trading system, they&#8217;re almost one-for-one, the same functions needed to build an MMOG.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> The article&#8217;s author goes on to say <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But there&#8217;s more to this vision than just simple middleware. Nothing less than rewriting the underlying economics of the MMOG space is at stake.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> This is where someone gets off the clue-train. This isn&#8217;t about Massive Multiplayer Online Games. This is about the convergence of work and games. This is about the blurring distinction between them. So instead I&#8217;d say this is about nothing less than reforming the occupational landscape on a different societal foundation. In fact, much of my commentary here (and elsewhere <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secretlair.com\/index.php?\/clickableculture\/entry\/the_work_of_warcraft\/#comments\">1<\/a>,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/technology\/blog\/2005\/10\/plm-software-migrating-to-masses.html\">2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/slfuturesalon.blogs.com\/second_life_future_salon\/2005\/09\/avoiding_a_shor.html\">3<\/a>)  is directly related to this shift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via an SL Future Salon entry comes this interesting link to a Next Generation article where Sun Microsystems basically comes out and boldly announces what so many people have been saying for some time (perhaps years). Here&#8217;s a quote from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=380\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}