was looking for analysis on ms’ .net announcement (which i’d been sort of ignoring), and managed somehow to happen on linus’ extracted kernel notes from the linux kernel v 0.01 Kernel Notes
rafe has an interesting opinion: Microsoft’s utter humiliation of its former competitors continues apace. First, Steve Jobs kissed the ring before the crowd at a MacWorld conference a few years ago. Now we see Marc Andreessen swearing fealty to Gates at this announcement. I wonder if we’ll ever see Scott McNeally or Larry Ellison kneeling before the Microsoft throne?.
dave has a different opinion: First, Microsoft didn’t get to where they are by being stupid. But taken at face-value, there’s something really stupid about broadcasting your five year product plan to your competitors. They even named them, AOL, Sun, IBM, Oracle and Linux. Without a doubt, the key strategists at these places must be poring over every detail they can get about Dot-Net. What are they concluding? “We could beat them to market, by years.” Now, remember, they’re smart at Microsoft. Are they laying a trap? I think not. It’s a chess game, but with a twist. “To get the government off our back,” I imagine the Microsoft thinking goes, “we have to have real competition.”.
i’m not really buying that, but nielsen is right when he talks about the doj os/application split is ill-fated. .net seems to be what a lot of people have been expecting out of ms since the doj ruling (shift to .net ruling). why the sudden announcement? beats me. to rally the stock price is my guess.