[thelist] closed source securtiy was: DB Security

Martin martin at members.evolt.org
Fri May 4 15:49:28 CDT 2001


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Luther, Ron wrote on 4/5/01 9:17 pm

>I'm not an MS watcher or MS analyst -- and I'm not going to become one
>today. I'm not intimately familiar with all of their products, product
>histories, or product strategies.  However, If I recall correctly their
>recent "ME" offering was panned in pretty much all quarters as a unneeded
>upgrade, a blatant attempt to bolster earnings without satisfying any
>overwhelmingly unmet "market" desires -- or to put it another way .... "not
>market driven".

Market desire amongst consumers is for regular (annualish) upgrades.
How it got to be so is another story, but that's the expectation.

98 wasn't much of an upgrade either - a few more drivers really.

>
>You made a good point about thinking about what customers they care about. I
>probably wasn't.

The ones they really care about are the big guys. If they can keep the
big installs (10,000 licenses and up), then everyone will still write
software for Windows, and consumers will still come to them by Metcalf's
Law. And of course, the big guys pay the big license fees. A large bank I
did some work for told their CEO how much they were paying MS in
total each year. The CEO hit not only the roof directly above him, but
several ones above that. They were paying MS more than they were
paying the vendors of their core banking systems...

Cheers
Martin

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