Dave One would hope that MS will be looking over their shoulder-- leery of restraint of trade violations.
If MS executes a pattern of activities, designed to undercut competition, based on their market dominance, they could/should be broken up. Rather, lets let the technologies compete -- may the best man win! Dick On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 06:39 PM, Dave Carabetta wrote: >> My prediction is that if the race gets close IBM will buy Sun. > > Wow. Interesting call, but it definitely makes sense, looking at all > the > money IBM's invested in Java. > > Follow-up question for you and others (and I apologize for veering > slightly > OT, but I think lots of people might be interested). I read an article > on > MarketWatch.com who commented that Microsoft is looking to spend some > of > their $40 billion cash reserves, and that Macromedia is a likely target > because of the potential for Flash as a viable rich front-end client. > How do > you react? (For reference, here's the extremely long URL: > http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/myway-com/news- > story.asp?guid={8F49BE7D > -3FF1-4D8B-ABEA-A12346B8B714}&alias=/ht/nw) > > On the surface, it sounds ludicrous because MM's spent so much time and > money moving CF to Java. But let's face it, one area where .NET would > benefit immensely is Rich UIs, i.e., Flash. I'm not sure where that > would > leave CF (port to .NET, dump it altogether), but I don't think MS would > really care all that much. And, as the article briefly points out, it > could > strike a major blow to Java. > > Secondly, money's money. And once any offer were sufficient upped ($40 > billion's a lot of TV dinners), I find it hard to believe that Burgess > and > company could continue to turn their collective backs without giving it > serious thought. > > Anybody have any thoughts? Not looking for flames, just trying to > spark a > professional discussion based on the reality of today's market. > > Regards, > Dave. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
