I'm honestly of the opinion that splitting Microsoft up into an OS company and an applications company is not going to make a jot of difference in terms of the difficulty in competing with the behemoth that MS has become. So rather than having one dominant software company that crush all competition and force closed APIs and dodgy standards complience on the rest of the world, we'll have two dominant software companies doing exactly the same.
And realistically, they're not going to be competing with each other, since even as a split company, the two companies will rely on each other so much they will be as one company, insofar as philosophy goes.
Best case, one of the two companies will become excessively dominant (my bets are on the applications division, because it has IE and I think Linux and MacOS are beginning to chomp at the edges of Windows, which doesn't really seem to be going anywhere), and we'll just go through this all again. Maybe the applications company will be further split into a web applications and desktop applications company.
In any event, Microsoft's enterprise offerings are still very weak and closed, compared to more flexible and (admittedly only partially) open technologies like servlets, jsp and so on. So the Internet has really changed everything, I think, given time, Microsoft's backwardness in this area will eventually topple them, split or not.
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> any eCommerce site that has a ton of Java and > Flash deserves to go under.
I have to take issue with this; I totally agree in so far as Java applets go (i.e. basically, don't use them). But Java on the server side is flexible, maintainable, works and is used on many, many sites.
But Boo's web site was crushingly slow, because they overdid it a bit with the client side niceties.
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I'm honestly of the opinion that splitting Microsoft up into an OS company and an applications company is not going to make a jot of difference in terms of the difficulty in competing with the behemoth that MS has become. So rather than having one dominant software company that crush all competition and force closed APIs and dodgy standards complience on the rest of the world, we'll have two dominant software companies doing exactly the same.
And realistically, they're not going to be competing with each other, since even as a split company, the two companies will rely on each other so much they will be as one company, insofar as philosophy goes.
Best case, one of the two companies will become excessively dominant (my bets are on the applications division, because it has IE and I think Linux and MacOS are beginning to chomp at the edges of Windows, which doesn't really seem to be going anywhere), and we'll just go through this all again. Maybe the applications company will be further split into a web applications and desktop applications company.
In any event, Microsoft's enterprise offerings are still very weak and closed, compared to more flexible and (admittedly only partially) open technologies like servlets, jsp and so on. So the Internet has really changed everything, I think, given time, Microsoft's backwardness in this area will eventually topple them, split or not.
> any eCommerce site that has a ton of Java and > Flash deserves to go under.
I have to take issue with this; I totally agree in so far as Java applets go (i.e. basically, don't use them). But Java on the server side is flexible, maintainable, works and is used on many, many sites.
But Boo's web site was crushingly slow, because they overdid it a bit with the client side niceties.