« MT Plugin: Entry | Main | Quotable Quotes »

November 14, 2003

2003 and Beyond

This morning I was catching up on my reading (on the bus) and the journal selected at random from a pile waiting for attention was: AUUGN - The Journal of AUUG Inc., Volume 24, Number 3. Starting on page 18 was an article entitled "2003 and Beyond" and it turns out that the author also has a copy of this on the web. If you are in IT, you need to read this - right now! The author notes that he (or his company) build PC's but that doesn't stop him from outlining what the future will hold and what the choices are. The article is well written and could easily be passed to non-technical IT management for perusal - just don't be shocked if that means the anti-microslosh movement grows at the management level.

Interesting quote:

The PC software industry is in the final days of being destroyed by Microsoft. Having leveraged a monopoly it was handed by IBM into multiple monopolies, with complete control over the PC manufacturers, and with an "Ethics? We've heard of it" attitude, Microsoft is preparing to drive the few remaining significant software publishers out of the Windows market.
Soon there will be Microsoft, Intuit, and Symantec. While Intuit will put up a strong fight, its popularity is not something Microsoft will tolerate for long. Revenue plans for Microsoft Great Plains do not allow for the existence of accounting software competitors. Microsoft will use Longhorn and .NET to bash and batter Intuit.

Posted by Ozguru at November 14, 2003 08:11 AM

Comments

That's not an article, it's a bloomin' book. Fascinating stuff. Thanks for the link.

Posted by: Kathy K at November 14, 2003 08:11 AM

P.S. I detect just a bit of anti-Microsoft bias in that mini-book (despite the fact that I have the same bias, I think he's a bit too too far). But there's lots of good geeky stuff there that's 'velly intellisting'.

Posted by: Kathy K at November 14, 2003 08:11 AM

Get out while you still can Automation Access provides a long, interesting and ultimately worrying read regarding Microsoft's future direction - with plenty of footnotes. (link via Oz Guru)

Posted by: synapse at November 14, 2003 08:11 AM