You (James Mansion) wrote:
> Microsoft have never had a problem with ISV mindshare because they made
> things cheap and accessible. Free is just one form of cheap from that
> perspective. I absolutely believe that Microsoft's success is not nearly so
> much related to monopolistic practices as to their early ability to court
> ISVs and their ability to use ABIs (like VBXs and OLE controls) to create a
> marketplace for small ISVs. Microsoft took their eye off that ball a few
> years back but they seem to have recovered.
But MS was and is in a very different position... ;-)
Now, with the second largest SW-vendor on earth as the owner of Solaris things
might well change...
> Maybe I'm just an old fart but I recall my dismay at the Byte headlines
I did read Byte too, and am deeply sad, that it ceased to exist. Even its
online archive is gone, which is a big shame!
> that OO had failed and components had won. I was an early C++ adopter and
> it was galling - because it was true. How many businesses ever got anywhere
> with aftermarket controls on any of the X toolkits? Maybe Qt will create an
> ecosystem - I don't know. But I think the lesson was that open standards
> don't create that sort of ISV-friendly environment on their own and the
> existence of such a market does wonders. Look at the iPhone app shop. Same
> thing again.
So right! Look at all the hype around the iPad this easter weekend... ;-)
Nothing open, still more revenue than what's been decided to provide Haiti as
earthquake relieve help...
Matthias
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