Yes, Microsoft Can Become The General Motors Of Software
Recently, Jay Galbraith wrote an article on Fortune Brainstorm Tech asking “Will Microsoft become the General Motors of software”. He was pointing out to the complex politics inside the software giant, especially the middle managers in the desktop division. It is a great article to read. He even doubts whether the Azure efforts will get […]
Microsoft and their huge problem in the clouds – A Response To Krishnan's Take
Alex Espinoza is a software developer in California with expertise on C/C++, C#, Java, Asp.Net, Php & Javascript. He is also knowledgeable of Linux, which used to be his passion of college years. He gave a strong response to my post titled Microsoft’s Huge Cloud Problem in his blog. Since it is our policy in […]
Microsoft's Huge Cloud Problem
Recently, I had a Twitbate (Twitter Debate) with a Silicon Angle Analyst and few other members of Clouderati about the Microsoft’s position with respect to the Cloud. The general discussion centered around whether Microsoft can be successful in the Cloud game or not. The opinions ranged from a outright dismissal as non-starter to a possibility […]
Amazon Releases Relational Database As A Service – My Initial Thoughts
Here is a breaking news from Amazon. Amazon Web Services is releasing Relational Database as a Service (RDS). The press release is yet to go out but the website is active. They will be announcing the news at 1:00 AM PST tomorrow. Even though AWS has a storage cloud (S3), Compute Cloud (EC2) and a […]
Microsoft, Google, Azure and Data Centres
Microsoft has been spending a lot of money over many years to ramp up their data centre infrastructure. Once again the difference between Microsoft and Google becomes apparent when we look at their data centre build strategies. First up Microsoft – with the recent announcement of its Azure cloud based OS, Microsoft once and for […]
Ready for Vista Final? (Code-named Windows 7)
For the second day TechMeme is overflowing with Microsoft news coming out of PDC: Azure, Windows 7, Web Office (whatever the MS name will be). But on the very day that supposedly all belonged to Microsoft there was a stream of seemingly unrelated items on TechMeme all pointing in the same direction, none too good […]
Microsoft; Arrogant or Smart?
Much has been written about the recent Microsoft announcements of both it’s Azure Cloud Computing platform and it’s intention to announce the web-based delivery of it’s Office suite of products. I can’t add much to the technical discussion but a few posts lately got me thinking. First up Rodrigo posted, wondering why Microsoft would pre-announce […]
