A common corporate concern with platform strategy has been to chose a platform that will survive "over the long haul". Years ago, as a consultant, I functioned as architectural advisor to a fortune 500 financial services client trying to choose a server platform between OS/2, Unix and a new thing called Windows NT. My client was convinced that one of these three was sure to take over the world and the thrust of their platform strategy must be to pick the winner.
I told them to stop asking the wrong question. Stop asking which platform is going to take over the world and start asking which platform is never going away.
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A common corporate concern with platform strategy has been to chose a platform that will survive "over the long haul". Years ago, as a consultant, I functioned as architectural advisor to a fortune 500 financial services client trying to choose a server platform between OS/2, Unix and a new thing called Windows NT. My client was convinced that one of these three was sure to take over the world and the thrust of their platform strategy must be to pick the winner. I told them to stop asking the wrong question. Stop asking which platform is going to take over the world and start asking which platform is never going away.