Ted Roche wrote:
> For want of a nail, a kingdom was lost. Losing VFP and having a
> quarter-million developers split between 80% .NET, 15% quitting
> ("Paper or plastic?" "Welcome to Wal-Mart(tm)") and 5% moving to
> LAMP-Ruby-on-Rails-Mac-whatever might not matter to Microsoft's bottom
> line right off, but it's like a slow, steady drip-drip-drip. More
> developers write more apps that can run on cell phones or PDAs or
> kiosks or Macs or Linux boxes. Separate the interface from the
> implementation, the server from the UI, offer your services through
> platform-independent, standards-based protocols like http, xml-rpc,
> SOA, etc. Less and less dependence on the MS-OS. Drip, drip, drip.
>
> Dropping Visual Basic 6 and forcing VB developers through the Death
> March of .Net beta, 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 3.0 has eroded their base there.
> Folks are flocking to alternatives, or just quitting. Drip, drip,
> drip.
>
> Being found guilty of inappropriate business practices made a lot of
> ears perk up, and wonder if this was the company to depend on. Drip,
> drip, drip.
>
> SQL Slammer. Drip, drip, drip.
>
> Windows Genuine Disadvantage. Drip, drip, drip.
>
> Microsoft's continued attempts to break Samba through redefining CIFS.
> Drip, drip, drip.
>
> Microsoft makes huge amounts of money from client licenses for Windows
> and Office. They don't make a lot of money from most of their other
> ventures. They have set themselves up as a Goliath. It's just a matter
> of time before a David comes along.
>
>
....and the latest news about a Google Office-like suite should have
them worried about another drip-drip-drip, although Google is quick to
say they're not a threat to M$.
--
Michael J. Babcock, MCP
MB Software Solutions, LLC
http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com
http://fabmate.com
"Work smarter, not harder, with MBSS custom software solutions!"
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