Re: ADTPro beta available

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <1153105100.286206.281450@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com> wrote:
 
> Michael J. Mahon wrote:
>> mdj wrote:
>>
>>> Javascript is an interesting one - while Javascript itself isn't a
>>> platform, many would consider a web browser to be a platform.
>>
>> In fact, it was their realization of this possiblitiy that led Microsoft
>> to regard Netscape as a threat--and led Sun to devise Java as a way to
>> sharpen that threat!
>
> I always thought this a stunning example of corporate arrogance that
> Microsoft thought their market position so strong that a globally
> distributed client-server application architecture would not emerge.
 
In the early days in Win-95, Microsoft even tried to ignore the Internet,
instead hoping that their own "Microsoft Network" would conquer the
world.  That didn't happen, fortunately...
 
 
> But they plugged the leak, and it taken another decade the application
> oriented web to begin to emerge.
> 
> It seems obvious that they intend to block rather than lead this
> emerging market, no doubt because it just does not offer the same
> margins as flogging an OS+Office suite. I feel that the market is
> reaching the point where it just will not support entities of that size
> who simply sell software, much of which is simple infrastucture.
> 
> Matt
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