On Friday 21 February 2003 02:36 pm, fooler wrote: > http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/biztech/02/20/outgoing.exec/index.html I wonder how the "unsanitized" or "in-your-face" version of his letter reads like. It must have been very interesting. Damn the torpedoes. :-)
Quotes from the article: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >"Stop looking over your shoulder and invent something!" Stutz said in the >letter. Yeah right! Ballmer frequently touts XML as the fundamental building block on which to push their client, server, and device strategies. XML is an open standard, Dear Ballmer, and not your innovation. Sorry. We still sense your "not-invented-here" paradigm mindset. If you think you can mangle XML standards like what you did to Java, sorry. Not this time, big boys. "David" finally has the open-source slingshot that can slay a "Goliath" right between the eyes. There have been talks of Yukon's XML-enabled databases and filesystems. If Microsoft gets this car out of the garage, are we sure car thieves aren't able to break inside this car? Everytime Microsoft rolls a new model, car thieves love the "ease" of breaking inside. >He also warned, "Recovering from current external perceptions of Microsoft as >a paranoid, untrustworthy, greedy, petty, and politically inept organization >will take years." Ouch! Will you trust your crown jewels again to a corporation that turned out to be a robber baron? A mirror once broken can never be made whole again. <Sigh> >Surprisingly, Microsoft said it agrees with much of Stutz's vision of the >future. It's not surprising they do agree, instead, they're scared stiff! This scared paranoia leads to even more convoluted paranoid business practices that further alienates their loyal customers, like Licensing version 6. Open Source and Free Software are poised to erode them, and they're scared out of their wits by scaring their customers with scary licensing. Poor Microsoft. This must be "Scary Movie Part 3 - The Hauntings of Redmondville." >"Microsoft is in agreement with much of the position that David has of the >future. But Microsoft believes that breakthroughs will come mostly through >commercial software companies, like Microsoft," a company spokeswoman said. Huh? If indeed they do come up with a breakthrough technology, will it be priced right? Will it be safe and secure from viruses and cracking? (Me scratches dandruff.) >Retiring Microsoft executives commonly write letters about what they believe >the vendor is doing right and wrong, the spokeswoman said. Stutz's is >unusual in that he chose to publish his-or, rather a self-described >"sanitized version" of his letter-to the Internet. Hope someone inside Microsoft leaks out the unsanitized version. :-) >Microsoft faces the ongoing obsolescence of the shrink-wrap PC software >market, in favor of the Internet as the platform for software, Stutz said. >...snip >Open source has emerged as an alternative, albeit one that is "often >inferior" to Microsoft software, which is locked into its PC-centric mode, >Stutz said. "Microsoft still builds the world's best client software, but >the biggest opportunity is no longer the client. It still commands the >biggest margin, but networked software will eventually eclipse client-only >software," Stutz said. Isn't this the whole thrust of the .NET framework? Is David Stutz saying .NET is a failure? (Me scratches dandruff again.) >One-size-fits-all, one-app-is-all-you-need, one-API-and-damn-the-torpedoes >has turned out to be an imperfect strategy for the long haul." David Stutz might as well realize this: "One-vendor for all apps, one funnel of all profits to Microsoft. One Windows to roll-out, one Windows to bind them all". Sounds like "Mordo" from the "Lord of the Rings" to me. mikol _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
