On Feb 13, 2008, at 9:28 AM, Tom Chiverton wrote:
Conduct in the past often informs future conduct.
Where a company has used a product as a weapon to bankrupt the
competion, at
the expense of features, as MS has done in the past, it is hard to
see how it
is not going to do so again i.e. make an effort with Silverlight up
until
Flex is Netscape'ed at which point Silverlight will also be left to
fester.
Witness IE, among other projects at MS.
Almost every software company is guilty of that in some manner or
another. I get that all the time in the vfx industry - companies dead
ending production software that is a key component to a pipeline.
In the end, it all boils down to money. In the case of Microsoft, eh,
whatever. If the technology is good, clients demand it and it makes
money, I use it.
It just so happens that the opportunities for monetization of
creative and programming services are much greater with the Flex
platform than they are with Silverlight.
- j
