[UPHPU] notes from austin php users group

[jtaber]

Brandon Stout wrote:
> Joshua Simpson wrote:
>   
>> On 12/20/06, jtaber <jtaber at johntaber.net> wrote:
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>>> is stupid for an employer.  I think it was DIY NIH that killed Netscape.
>>>       
>> And, second, c'mon.  Microsoft killed Netscape.
>>
>>     
>
> Yes, Netscape even won in court against MS on this one.  In early 1998,
> most web pages were written for Netscape.  Some even required Netscape. 
> By mid 1999, most were written for IE, and some even required IE.  It
> took another couple of years before a big cross-browser-friendly code
> emphasis came about.MS killed the #1 browser in less than a year - the
> facts are overwhelmingly obvious.
>
> BTW, what's DIY and NIH?
>
>  DIY - Do It Yourself - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIY
>  NIH - National Institute of Health
>
> of course, jtaber probably meant:
>
>  NIH - Not Invented Here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Invented_Here
>
> Brandon Stout
> http://mscis.org
>
>
>   
You should read some of the books on this, especially by Michael 
Cusimano - Netscape lost their competitive advantage by trying to write 
everything in Java, and having to write a lot of java structure 
themselves since the language wasn't that far advanced yet.   They 
insisted on doing everything their own way - yes, not invented here.   
MS of course took advantage of the mistake to kill them.