A Dear John letter to Bill Gates
Nathan Robeson
Phil McGuinness
Without cutting and pasting parts of this article.. I see the comments as
very accurate.
Clearly our companies future is Open Source development tools and some
commercial systems. We are seeing the inroads of Open Office / Star Office
more and more as the difference between $1100 and $99 for licensing is
evaluated. We see the supply and updating of our own software is all web
and we have never shipped a single CD of our systems yet.. it is all web
deployed and mantained.
It is working for us and I see one of my major competitor a little worried
about what we are doing is offering their program for FREE as a monthly
service rental to try and win some sales.
Also the comments of users/clients needing parts of an application are so
true and the client / server model is growing rapidly.
I see the recent Server sales posted saw a 5% growth overall but the Linux
growth was 90%.
I see also Microsofts latest more to PATENT the .NET iniative may stiffle
its future as well if the patent is granted.
I am not sure how this will effect vendors who back .NET and what control
Microsoft may have over them.
Yep change is coming very very fast.
Phil McGuinness
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"Nathan Robeson" <nat...@voicecue.com> wrote in message
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> http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20030219S0007
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Nathan Robeson
Tester for CULE.
Nathan
"Phil McGuinness" <hey...@sherlock.com.au> wrote in message
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Phil McGuinness
This is why we are moving to a PHP and mySQL model for the stuff we cannot
do in VO.
But the other issue is also multi platform as well.
Phil
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"Nathan Robeson" <nat...@voicecue.com> wrote in message
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> All of our customers want WEB deployment. That is why I've become a Beta
> Tester for CULE.
> > Without cutting and pasting parts of this article.. I see the comments
as
> > very accurate.