False dichotomy

False dichotomy

Posted Nov 1, 2007 20:29 UTC (Thu) by Los__D (subscriber, #15263)
In reply to: False dichotomy by man_ls
Parent article: GNOME and OOXML

As to server integration, Microsoft has tried this kind of thing in the past and failed miserably. For one thing their web server sucks big time; for another (not unrelated) aspect, security is a huge deal in server infrastructure and Microsoft's record there is quite poor. But they are also famous for trying many times before getting things right, so maybe this time they will succeed. Let's hope not.

MS is very much succeeding in this strategy (It's almost impossible to sell any kind of business software without being met with a demand for SharePoint integration), and they'll definately mainly use Office as a way to create a new lock-in.
We're lucky that our software is so unique that companies accept it as a standalone product (If we didn't offer AD integration though, we'd be game over), but I'm pretty sure that I'll be asked by my boss to port our software to their crap soon... *sigh*

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