Re: Gartner said last year, MS had plan but no substance
on Web Services - in fact it was generaly said that MS's blueprint for Web Services appeared to be the best (but that always seemed more like an opinion than a fact to me). I have long believed that IBM's incredible cosying up to MS over Web Services was an IBM strategy to rush MS into a market they lacked the substance for but that IBM was well prepared for, by doing so IBM is expecting to 'rush' MS right over a precipice.
Sun has come to the party late but to its credit, doesn't have to do anywhere near the effort MS needed to do in order to come up with credible, scalable Web based middleware servers or middleware OOT (because of Java). In the Server dept - MS credibility is shot to bits, in the programming area - MS have a hell of a lot of work to do to morph VB into C#.
MS seems to have not worked out their revenue model for Web Services & appear to be facing the reality that people won't agree to having an MS money-drain tap attached directly to their revenue streams.
IBM plan to make their revenue through their Global Services org - MS don't have a credible service org.
Sun seem to be building one around web technologies.
Cheers
Doug
Edit#1:tidy grammar & clarify a few remarks
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dmarker2
April 24, 2002, 03:07:07 AM EDT
Re: Gartner said last year, MS had plan but no substance
on Web Services - in fact it was generaly said that MS's blueprint for Web Services appeared to be the best (seemed more like an opinion than a fact). I have long believed that IBM's incredible cosying to MS over Web Services, was an IBM strategy to rush MS into a market they lacked the substance for & that IBM was prepared for. By doing so IBM is expecting to 'rush' MS right over a precipice.
Sun has come to the party late but to its credit, doen't have to do anywhere near the effort MS needed, in order to come up with credible, scalable Web based middleware servers or middleware OOT (because of Java). MS credibility is shot in that area.
MS seems to have not worked out their revenue model for Web Services & appear to be facing the reality that people won't agree to having an MS money drain tap attached directly to their revenue streams.
IBM plan to make their revenue through their Global Services org - MS don't have a credible service org.
Sun seem to be building one around web technologies.
Cheers
Doug