Partnering and competing with Microsoft: There’s nothing new under the sun
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| Ballmer and Chambers are meeting later today a handful of CIOs who have both
| Cisco and Microsoft products installed. They’ll listen to a litany of
| complaints, no doubt, about how hard it still is to get Cisco and Microsoft
| deliverables to interoperate. Is there anything new under the sun? No — not
| in terms of customers wanting vendors to make their lives easier, nor in
| terms of vendors promising customers the moon.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=655
Screwing the consumer so that he/she pays more money. Same story in the Novell
deal and OOXML.
Related:
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| [Microsoft:] “...we should take the lead in establishing a common approach to
| UI and to interoperability (of which OLE is only a part). Our efforts to date
| are focussed too much on our own apps, and only incidentally on the rest of
| the industry. We want to own these standards, so we should not participate in
| standards groups. Rather, we should call ‘to me’ to the industry and set a
| standard that works now and is for everyone’s benefit. We are large enough
| that this can work.”
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http://www.os2site.com/sw/info/comes/px09509.zip
Why the world needs openness, not interoperability.
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| This NAC/NAP lovefest would be laughable if it weren't such
| a kick-in-the-teeth to the rest of the industry, enterprise IT, and
| all Internet users. A Cisco/Microsoft oligopoly stalls implementation,
| stifles innovation, and makes the network less secure. In this way, Cisco
| and Microsoft are standing in the way of progress.
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http://news.com.com/2061-11203_3-6112960.html?part=rss&tag=6112960&subj=news
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| There was Microsoft chart, but we don’t sell it independently it always comes
| with Word and Excel and then so on. And so there are a whole bunch of other
| separate companies that have charting applications: Jendel Scientific and
| Deltapoint, and so forth. They do nothing but charting. And so I went to the
| various ISVs and said, “How would you like to all work together to form a
| standard charting-OLE interface for both, you know, custom interfaces and OLE
| automation interfaces?” And they said, “Great! Great!” But of course it only
| matters if Excel participates, because if Microsoft Office doesn’t use that
| charting interface, it really doesn’t matter. So I went to the Excel guys,
| which is what I had expected to do, and said specifically to…I can’t remember
| the guy’s name, the guy in Chart who was in charge of charting, “Hey, how
| would you like to standardize this stuff and work with these ISVs and make
| it a standard?” And his answer was very simple. He said, “Why should I work
| with~anyone outside the company to make their products better because all
| it’s going to do is help them sell copies that could otherwise be a Microsoft
| copy? Any money they’re making they can sell…they can spend on improving
| their product and staying in existence, and making it harder for us to do
| well. My job is to make Excel basically, like, the only application in the
| world. And if it doesn’t add money to my bottom line, then there’s no point
| in my spending any cycles on it”…
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http://boycottnovell.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/plex_2456ocr-mostevangelism16jan96.pdf
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