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Speaking of R&D, what about the eWeek article about how M$ is going
to pump $3,000,000,000.00 into MS Office? They want to achieve
$20,000,000,000.00 per year in revenue on MSOffice alone. Seems like they want
to dominate the desktop with more that just the O/S and browser. Can't
anyone slay this beast?
It's
an evil world in which we live...
I
view a R&D project not as "adding value to the business",
but training for myself. Everytime I have participated on an R&D
project I have learned a significant amount and have gained invaluable
experience!
If
you go in expecting to throw away all of your "work", you will be frustrated.
If you go in expecting to learn about a technology or product in a "real
world" setting, then you'll come away enriched by the
experience!
you obviously have not wasted enough time with tasks like this.
they really suck.
you end up spinning your wheels for a week, all for nothing.
your report ends up on somebody's shelf someplace - never read. and 6
months later, they ask the same questions.
the biggest task that a body needs to learn is how to duck these
research projects.
unless you *really* like doing them.
Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional
Well,
regardless of MS tactics, the last paragraph reads: "Therefore, I support investigating
SQL server, Biz Talk, and dot Net, but I emphasize the word
INVESTIGATING. "
What is better than R&D projects? At
the end one wins no matter what. Knowing more does not hurt, does
it?
inka
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Exactly.
In other words, thank the MS-sales-dweeb for his time, and tell
him "bye-bye now", "no-more-sales-for-you".
Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional
What exactly is your
problem?
Lets say that you are a factory that sells
paper.
You need to buy a computer system.
One supplier also sell printers and the other
advocate paperless office.
All things being equal, which one will you give
your business to??
Yechiel Adar
Mehish
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Sent: Thursday, September 26,
2002 1:13 AM
Subject: OT: MIcrosoft
Blackmail
This came to our DBA team
today. I'd appreciate your thoughts.
I'm not a business
guy,
just a plain old Apps DBA, but this really pisses me
off. Is it common practice
by MS?
It is important from an
Architecture point of view that we understand all the various
approaches to "web services" (also known as "grid computing" --
see my recent report). Microsoft's dot Net initiative is
their approach to this grand overarching software strategy.
There is a second reason
why we might be interested specifically in dot Net.
Subsidiary XYZ earns $xyz a year for us from
Microsoft by [performing
certain services], etc. Microsoft has told our management
that one of their criteria for evaluating their vendors will be
how good of a MS customer is the potential vendor.
Specifically, has the vendor bought in to the dot Net
strategy. Now we aren't going to make our global
enterprise solutions strategy decisions based upon that point
alone, but it's not something we are going to ignore
either.
Therefore, I support
investigating SQL server, Biz Talk, and dot Net, but I emphasize
the word INVESTIGATING.
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