Microsoft And JBoss Collaborate On Server Software

wellington map wrote to mention a C|Net article discussing a collaboration between Microsoft and JBoss, intended to ensure their server software is more interoperable. From the article: "Microsoft has struggled to deal with the arrival of open-source software, which is collaboratively developed with a code-sharing process that stands in stark contrast to the secrecy that shrouds most of the products from Microsoft and other proprietary software makers. After several attacks on the intellectual-property foundations and the methods, quality and cost of open-source software, Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft has begun a more cooperative phase."

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I definitely feel like Microsoft's on the way out

[Work Account]

1.) No one I know uses Microsoft aside from Windows/Office on their projects anymore.

2.) In the technology areas, Open Source and Free Software have taken over and are the ones doing most of the innovating now.

3.) Microsoft will most likely be delegated to a "secretary" computer company, providing email/wordprocessing/scheduling software to companies and not much else.

4.) IBM may actually have "died" and come back thanks to its embracing of Linux, etc. whereas Microsoft will probably go the way IBM did but may actually die unless they start buying out a ton of Open Source developers (which they are trying to do).

5.) Microsoft is hedging its bets on the Web, but Google will win that battle, as we've seen with their prompt acquisition of talent including many ex-Microsofters.

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