{"id":10987,"date":"2007-12-18T19:11:33","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T16:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/18\/on-the-battles-of-the-software-industry\/"},"modified":"2017-02-11T22:23:39","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T20:23:39","slug":"on-the-battles-of-the-software-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/18\/on-the-battles-of-the-software-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"On the battles of the software industry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here is a quote from Scott Rosenberg’s insightful post, titled “Clash of titanic business-press cliches<\/a>” \u00a0(emphasis is mine):<\/p>\n

Are Microsoft and Google in conflict? Of course. They have fundamentally different visions of where computing\u2019s headed \u2014 visions that the Times article<\/a>, by Steve Lohr and Miguel Helft, ably lays out. But it\u2019s not as if they are feudal fiefdoms fighting over some fixed patch of ground. Their conflict will play out as each company builds its next generation of software and services, and the next one after that, and people make choices about what to buy and what to use.<\/p>\n

Those choices are the key to the outcome. In a battle, civilians are mostly bystanders or casualties. In the software business, civilians \u2014 users \u2014 determine who wins.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Here is a quote from Scott Rosenberg’s insightful post, titled “Clash of titanic business-press cliches” \u00a0(emphasis is mine): Are Microsoft and Google in conflict? Of course. They have fundamentally different visions of where computing\u2019s headed \u2014 visions that the Times article, by Steve Lohr and Miguel Helft, ably lays out. But it\u2019s not as if … Continue reading On the battles of the software industry<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62],"tags":[2068,2076,237,39,124,1172],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","tag-google","tag-microsoft","tag-quotes","tag-software","tag-web","tag-web-services"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t