[Zope] Joel On Software - Good strategic article

[Ng Pheng Siong]

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.


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