[UPHPU] notes from austin php users group

[Scott Hill]

On 12/21/06, jtaber <jtaber at johntaber.net> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
This doesn't necessarily mean that doing it their own way was bad, but that
(maybe not incompetent but) mis-guided developers took a wrong turn.  Also,
management didn't have what it took to straighten it out.  MS kicked them
the rest of the way down and then kicked them while they were down and then
dropped depth charges to finish them off.  It was ugly all around.  BTW, MS
has had many wrong turns from people insided who wanted to do it their own
way.  But they have always had the resources to weather the storms.

My $.02

-- 
Scott Hill

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