Tag Archives: microsoft

Why proprietary?

November 2, 2005 – 3:29 pm

Hell, while I’m at it, I’ve got an expanded question to follow up my last one: Why would anyone developing a web application today sink any money whatsoever into a platform with any degree of proprietary technology? The latest Scoble dispatch is asking about Microsoft, but what about all the other closed-world web development environments out there? [...]

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Why Microsoft?

November 2, 2005 – 3:11 pm

Given the recent discussion, I’ll ask the inverse and naïve-sounding question: Why would anyone today sink money into a Microsoft solution for developing a web-based service or application? I mean, if you’re already up to your eyeballs in Microsoft contracts, I could see momentum being on their side. But, assume you’re just starting today [...]

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Linux Just Works

November 2, 2005 – 1:03 am

But I’m a developer.  I want more.  I want ruby.  And subversion.  And cvs.  And build tools.  Each is only an apt-get away.  There even is a convenient GUI for this.  Ray’s vision of the future, I have today.  And whereas Windows Update kept the OS and selected Microsoft tools up to date, the Debian [...]

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