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 Tuesday, May 04, 2004
Interesting article about the future of Microsoft from a business perspective

BusinessWeek has a very interesting yet critical article about the future of Microsoft called "Microsoft's Midlife Crisis". Interesting to see the company more from a business analyst and less technical point of view.

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5/4/2004 6:12:17 PM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)  #  Comments [0] 


 Thursday, April 29, 2004
Interesting Forbes article about the commercialization of linux

This article talks about the trend of linux distributors to commercialize the OS and cites Rick Carey, a former proponent of OSS who was Chief Technology Architect at Merril Lynch and now Bank One: "The companies that are trying to treat Linux like it's regular software and have a business model based on per-CPU or per-desktop licensing worry the heck out of me. For us, that makes Linux prohibitively expensive. And it makes a stronger case for us to go Windows".

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4/29/2004 1:38:33 PM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)  #  Comments [0] 


 Wednesday, December 31, 2003
IT-Outsourcing on Red Herring

Interesting take on IT outsourcing in Red Herring.

Bottom line:
"How much does outsourcing really save companies? According to a November 2003 report by People 3, only 21.1 percent of companies surveyed reported a cost savings of greater than 20 percent due to IT outsourcing, while 18.4 percent did not achieve any cost reductions, and 9.2 percent actually had an increase in costs from outsourcing contracts."

“Many companies often neglect to factor in all costs associated with managing outsourcing engagements, which average 4.5 percent of the total contract value and can be as high as 15 percent,...”

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12/31/2003 11:12:40 AM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)  #  Comments [0] 


 Monday, December 29, 2003
Cultural differences between Unix and Windows developers

Joel Spolsky has a very nice article on his homepage that talks about the cultural clash between Unix and Windows developers. Absolutely worth a reading.

Guten Rutsch ("have a good slide" as we say in German) into a happy new year!

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12/29/2003 3:52:57 PM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)  #  Comments [0] 


 Wednesday, November 05, 2003
Mono roadmap covering Whidbey and WinFX

Miguel announces the Mono roadmap and the Hacking roadmap that contains plans about the upcoming Whidbey features and even about implementing Indigo and Avalon.

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11/5/2003 1:14:12 PM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)  #  Comments [0] 


 Tuesday, November 04, 2003
German .NET Community Conference

For the German .NET Community:
Just noticed the announcement of the .NET Community Conference in Karlsruhe in Alex's blog. It's free and covers an exclusive preview of ASP.NET 2.0. Patrick A. Lorenz, the writer of ASP.NET 2.0 Revealed is speaking.

UPDATE: Unfortunately, the conference is cancelled but a replacement is planned.

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11/4/2003 2:20:38 PM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)  #  Comments [0] 


 Monday, November 03, 2003
Updated: Microsoft Developer Tools Roadmap 2004-2005

An updated version of the Developer Tools Roadmap can be found here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/productinfo/roadmap.aspx

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11/3/2003 6:02:27 PM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)  #  Comments [0] 


 Tuesday, September 23, 2003
Microsoft's web strategy and Sun's take on Linux

I stumbled over two interesting articles about Microsoft's web strategy. The first one on linux universe headlined "How Netscape beat Microsoft". The bottom line (of the first half) is that while MS defeated Netscape in the browser war it couldn't stop webapps taking over classical Windows client apps.
The second article "Why Microsoft's All About the Web" considers Microsoft's position slightly different but also points out: "Even so, the Internet remains a great threat to Microsoft [...]. Most of what I do could be done on a much simpler computer; no Windows required."

I'm pretty much looking forward to the PDC to learn how MS is going to regain momentum for windows apps with technologies like "ClickOnce" (no-touch deployment) and "Avalon". Thanks to Scoble for the links.

Another interesting competitive article containing an interview with Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's executive vice president for software can be found here. Thanks to Don.

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9/23/2003 2:21:56 PM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)  #  Comments [0] 


 Sunday, September 14, 2003
David Chappell: The Economic Value of Linux

I know I am late but I've just seen the following article announced on Christian Nagels blog:

The Economic Value of Linux by David Chappell

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9/14/2003 8:20:57 PM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)  #  Comments [0] 



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