[Am-info] .Net = nyet

[Gene Gaines]

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Another report on .Net from Microsoft's developer conference
in New Orleans.  I've gotta find out if they still had Paperclip
BoB running around in his outhouse, as I have seen at other
Microsoft events.

I guess this is Microsoft's acnowledgement that most red-blooded
businesses don't want Bill Gates in the pockets or in their pants.

See:
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/04/11/020411hnhailstorm.xml?0412fram

TechEd: Hailstorm rains on the enterprise

By Matt Berger
April 11, 2002 2:41 pm PT


"NEW ORLEANS - A Microsoft technology that Bill Gates himself
described last year as "probably the most important ... building
block service" of the company's broad .Net initiative, is being
redefined due to resistance from enterprise customers, company
representatives acknowledged Thursday at Microsoft's annual
developer conference here. ..."

I was struck by this paragraph later in the article:

"Microsoft had gotten some heat from consumer groups and privacy
advocates around the concept of having vast amounts of user data
stored in a single warehouse."

Wow, there is an understatement.

Interesting quotes from near the end of the article, all by
Microsoft sword-carriers:

  "Microsoft seems as committed as ever to those services
  (passport .Net alerts),"

  Microsoft also said that as corporations and other customers
  decide to build the .Net My Services technology on their own,
  it could be resurrected through MSN in the future.

  "We've not changed our vision of user centric Web services
  available from any place. What's changed is the question of
  the road we're taking to get there,"

So what had changed?  Perhaps Microsoft actually having to listen
to customers is what has changed.

I wonder why?

Gene Gaines
gene.gaines@gainesgroup.com
Sterling, Virginia