Advice to MS regarding...software
...Digging in against open source commoditization won't work - it would be like digging in against the Internet, which Microsoft tried for a while before getting wise. Any move towards cutting off alternatives by limiting interoperability or integration options would be fraught with danger, since it would enrage customers, accelerate the divergence of the open source platform, and have other undesirable results. Despite this, Microsoft is at risk of following this path, due to the corporate delusion that goes by many names: "better together," "unified platform," and "integrated software." There is false hope in Redmond that these outmoded approaches to software integration will attract and keep international markets, governments, academics, and most importantly, innovators, safely within the Microsoft sphere of influence. But they won't...more [Synthesist.net]
Facinating piece from a recently retired Micorsoft employee. Microsoft is it's own worst enemy, which is why Gates should have accepted the breakup proposal. As a large monopoly, it will lose in the end. Unless it acts in an illeagal manner, the market will move around it. Hubris is the downfall of many of the mighty...mj
hu·bris
[n. greek] Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance:
"There is no safety in unlimited technological hubris"
-- McGeorge Bundy
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