Microsoft Ex-Chief to Launch Web-Based Software

prostoalex writes "Search for Paul Maritz and you're most likely to find Microsoft references. However, next month his new venture, PiCorp will start distributing Web-based software applications that might compete directly with Microsoft offerings. Former Microsoft exec also has an opinion on the future of software industry: '"The strength of the PC is also its weakness," Maritz says. "People don't want a single dedicated computer. They don't want their whole lives bound up in one piece of hardware. People want to get access wherever they are, from whatever device they're using."'"

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Re:Bastards.

[Tim]

Grow the hell up....when you're starting your own company, you may find you can provide services at a lower cost if you base yourself out of India (or China, or ...), and that's what you need to get into the market. And an Indian can write just as good LAMP or .NET code as anyone else.

And when you do realize this, I hope you remember to get some equity and a piece of the *rich cronies'* pie! And yeah, life's pretty good even in our part of the world.

If "your part of the world" is India, then yeah, I guess that life is pretty good for the few percent of you who happen to be in the highest social castes. And as long as we ignore your atrocious public health system, your incredibly high infant mortality rate, and your massive problems with pollution and poverty, then yeah, life in India is just peachy.

Skilled labor in is expensive in the US because we have a high standard of living. If we allowed our infant mortality to skyrocket, if we allowed hundreds of thousands of our citizens to suffer and die from malaria, tuberculosis, dysentery and other wasting diseases due to poor sanitation, and we allowed thousands more to suffer and die from diseases that we have been all but eradicated in the first world (such as polio), then yeah, we might be able to compete with Bangalore on price. But then, we also might have to give up on our university system, shit in our water supply, and otherwise pollute the hell out of our land, water and air. Sounds like a good deal to me!

If India spent half as much money caring for their poor and suffering as they do trying to suck white-collar jobs from the US, I might believe you when you tell me that people in your part of the world need "web services." But from my perspective, you need doctors and mosquito nets a hell of a lot more than you need .NET programmers.