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Monday, August 13, 2001
With friends like each other, who needs enemies? Least of all when the only real enemy is Microsoft? 
| | A few more giant sales of .Net and IIS to big providers, and what happens? Will the tide turn? I dunno. Maybe Apache is more secure in its space than Netscape was in the browser space a few years ago, and the analogy is a poor one. But don't be too quick to respond. Microsoft has customers. On the whole, the open source world doesn't. At least not in the common econmic meaning of the noun. Let me put it this way: there is a difference between scratchng your own itch and scratching a customer's. Microsoft is in the business of doing the latter. Open source folks do lots of things extremely well. But at selling commercial software, there's only one Microsoft. It is best not to underestimate their ability to get turn some business. |
| | Background: read this Netcraft server survey carefully. It'll scroll off when the next monthly survey comes up, and (far as I know) won't be archived with a permanent URL. If earlier surveys had been archived, I could point to the one that attributes IIS' continued growth to e-commerce server-based products that only run on IIS and for which there is growing demand. |
| | The subtext of that now-gone survey text seemed to suggest that Microsoft is doing a very good job of understanding what the suppy side of e-commerce wants, and is delivering the goods, big-time. Marketing 101, once again. Meanwhile the opposing community is more opposed than a community, and certainly not in busines for business, on the whole. |
| | I'm honestly not sure what to make of the trends I see here, but they give me a creepy feeling. |
| | If anybody has some facts that'll help out, lemme know. |
Which is maybe why there's so much of it
| | "The real problem we face with the Web is not understanding the anomalies, it¹s facing how deeply weird the ordinary is. — David Weinberger, from his Small Pieces sampler. |
Dust off that iceberg
| | I've now been on hold with Verizon for half an hour. My phone is a radio for Verizon's easy listening voice mail oldies jukebox. They don't even have that "thank you for holding..." BS. It's just music. Forever. And ever. Meanwhile I've had two cell calls. "You're always on the phone, dude," one said. |
Looking forward to even less intended consequences of the XP release
| | Braddock Gaskill: The only thing I dread more than attempting to get a new network card installed, is having a conversation about attempting to get a new network card installed. |
Way to go, sales!
Another one might be Forgetting
| | I'm thinking about what my categories might be if I had any. Here's what I've got so far: |
| | Trying to make technology work |
| | Stuff Norlin and the Lemur send me |
| | Am I missing anything, besides the usual marbles? |
You can turn the page, or you can help Doc do his job
| | There's an interesting piece about the holy grail — a serious demand market for Linux on the desktop — by Miguel in Computerworld (see here). |
| | And there is serious demand by me for hard evidence of what Miguel is talking about, again on the demand side. I've asked Ximian and their PR folks to help out on that; but any of the rest of ya'll are most welcome to do the same. Write me here. |
I feel a great speaking opportunity in The Force
| | Me and Carrie Fisher, whaddaya think? I can talk about markets and stuff while she talks about the pressues of fame, triumph over mental illness and maybe what's up with my clearly terminal dandruff problem. |
Now Norlin has me convinced that Alan Mecker should have been my father
What's up?
| | I've been watching the Perseid (named after Perseus, the publisher) meteor shower from our observatory, which is what I've taken to calling the otherwise semi-useless "meditation tower" a previous owner installed incongruously on our roof. Up here in the hills above Santa Barbara the sky is so clear I can see the inky dark clouds in the milky way, threading through Cygnus (de-named by Red Hat, the acquisitor), striaght overhead. |
| | I just counted three shooting stars in the last five minutes. If you're reading this right now, leave your computer, go out, find a nice dark and clear view of the sky, lay down if possible and look straight up. Give it a few minutes. You'll be impressed. |
Elective Perpective
| | I think I'll stick with the date system. If it screws up some RSS streams or whatever, well: whatever. |
| | That said, I really do like the way Craig's blog is shaping up. There are subject, date and category contexts for every entry, plus a clear discuss link as well. The table of contents on the left is useful too. |
| | And yeah, I've also been getting a lot of pressure to update my site; and maybe I'm just a bit allergic to advice, y'know? So... thoughts? |
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