Joel On Software - Good strategic article
I just read this. Good read! http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html It has some *very* good points. They are especially interresting for us working on Web apps. If you read between the lines it's also a pointer to why Z3 is an important step to get right. -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 12:22:04PM +0200, Max M wrote:
I just read this. Good read!
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html
It has some *very* good points. They are especially interresting for us working on Web apps.
If you read between the lines it's also a pointer to why Z3 is an important step to get right.
I stop delivery of this list's mail a long while ago, but it seems the list migration has unset this and I'm getting mail again. Let's hope the admins fix this soon. Anyhow, since you mentioned Joel, he has another article wherein he lambda, oops, lambasted Netscape for _rewriting the browser from scratch_, which he claimed is the primary reason for Netscape's losing the browser war. Also, there is this book entitled, "In search of stupidity: 20 years of high-tech marketing disasters". The book covers the period from DOS to Windows 3.x and talks about WordPerfect, dBase, Borland's Turbo line of products, etc. More than once, rewriting a product (e.g., WordStar 2000) was cited as a big reason why a particular player lost its lunch to Microsoft. -- Ng Pheng Siong <ngps@netmemetic.com> http://firewall.rulemaker.net -+- Firewall Version Control http://sandbox.rulemaker.net/ngps -+- M2Crypto, ZServerSSL/Zope, Blog
Ng Pheng Siong wrote:
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 12:22:04PM +0200, Max M wrote:
I just read this. Good read!
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html
It has some *very* good points. They are especially interresting for us working on Web apps.
If you read between the lines it's also a pointer to why Z3 is an important step to get right.
I stop delivery of this list's mail a long while ago, but it seems the list migration has unset this and I'm getting mail again. Let's hope the admins fix this soon.
Anyhow, since you mentioned Joel, he has another article wherein he lambda, oops, lambasted Netscape for _rewriting the browser from scratch_, which he claimed is the primary reason for Netscape's losing the browser war.
I knwo that one. It's long been a favourite of mine. But the other side of the equatione there, is that they abandoned their old version, and tried to make a clean break. No such thing is tried with Z3. Z2 & Z3 will be complemtary for a while. After which Z3 should take over. Besides... I am not shure that MS has won the browser war yet. Mozilla is a far better browser. -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science
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