Dana Gardner
Dana Gardner
extending ibm microsoft opening
At the same time, Microsoft has not done well at extending its Communications Platform, nee Greenwich, so IBM has an opening here.
complexity demand goal juggle reduce types
If your end goal is to reduce complexity in types of formats, you have to juggle -- you need to demand adherence to a set of standards, a framework, or a stack.
buyers came choice commercial deal flavors great microsoft mixture multiple open point sun technology ten worry
Ten years ago when Microsoft came out with NT the worry was that there would be little choice at this point in time. But technology buyers have a great deal of choice. We still have multiple flavors of Unix. We have Sun with a mixture of open and commercial Unix, and we've got Linux.
invisible largely
This is going to be largely invisible to the end user.