Monday, September 05, 2005

Web 2.0 Makes Microsoft the New Sun At one time Sun systems were used on most midlevel projects. Sun was just the standard infrastructure. We developed software and hardware on Suns. When we bid on distributed system that didn't require real-time processing, we would bid Sun systems. Sun was like the center of the solar system. We all revolved around it. That slowly changed. Microsoft won the client and then went nova in the server space too. Sun dimmed and Microsoft ascended for many well known reasons. What's interesting is to see this pattern repeated, not by another computer system, but by Web 2.0, a layer built agnostically on top of any computer system. It's a well known prediction that we'll start seeing many more services run on a pure Web 2.0 platform. With Web 2.0 which OS you run will become about as important as which RAM chip vendor you use. Web 2.0 has Sunnified Microsoft. MS traditionally puts a lot of focus on developers. Will that matter when anyone can deliver web apps without MSs' help on a zero cost infrastructure? Like Sun, MS won't be able to do much about it. Vista is just rearranging desk chairs on the titanic. History rerepeats itself again. comment[] 9:14:40 PM

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