Jonathan Scott

Why Companies Really Turn to Open Source Software

I enjoyed your articled.

Did you say people turn to open source because their immediate goal is a common goal that can be accomplished with a commodity-like solution, and some people turn to open source like some people buy french wine and italian shoes?

The Gathering Clouds: Reconceptualizing Data

The transition appears to be acknowledging value in sharing data rather than focusing on hiding it as a trade secret because there is synergy in sharing. There is also the simultaneous goal of hiding data as a trade secret.

The Gathering Clouds: Reconceptualizing Data

To Historian1, I wish it were that simple, but then i don't because it would be too boring.

Google and Salesforce: Why Don't They Just Merge?

In a few years, Google and Salesforce.com will have a package almost as good as Office 2003.
This might be of concern if MSFT mgmt sat around the office, drank beer, and watched ESPN all day. Since this is not the likely scenario, MSFT has little to worry about. GOOG has won one battle, but MSFT never gives up and is currently focusing on the next battlefield. SeekingAlpha enjoys writing that MSFT is under attack. The question is with 90%+ marketshare, who else should everyone be attacking? AOL? Netscape? Oops, MSFT did away with them years ago.

Why Isn't Microsoft More Proactive in Acquisitions?

I would like to read the perspective of someone inside MSFT. That perspective would be an interesting contrast to the above viewpoint.