> <http://redmondmag.com/columns/article.asp?editorialsid=1384>
As a technology leader, MS's day is gone. The company will be around for some time to come because they have the lion's share of the market, but their infrastructure is unsustainable. The company was built from the bottom after grabbing the brass ring of the PC OS and running with it, but inattention to important infrastructure items is taking it's toll, and they're caught now between the rock (having to maintain backwards compatibility) and the hard place (doing it right), and there is no easy way out. They had a whopper of a chance when the split-up of the company was considered, as painful as that might have been, it would have given the company a foundation for the future. But it didn't happen. Personally, I'm not worried about it anymore. VFP is just fine for now and for the foreseeable future, and it has tremendous prospects for worldwide sales to boot. For anyone concerned with the longer term and bigger picture, watch IBM and Linux. Bill > > Stephen Russell _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
