Comments on: Can Microsoft Make WPF Successful? http://www.brooksandrus.com/blog/2008/05/14/can-microsoft-make-wpf-successful/ This is the blog of Brooks Andrus. Here, at irregular intervals, you may find digital noise centered around the activities of an early 21st century technologist. I work for TechSmith Corporation, but this web space and the views found on it are entirely my own. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:59:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: barry.b http://www.brooksandrus.com/blog/2008/05/14/can-microsoft-make-wpf-successful/#comment-45444 barry.b Wed, 14 May 2008 13:02:16 +0000 http://www.brooksandrus.com/blog/2008/05/14/can-microsoft-make-wpf-successful/#comment-45444 it's a shame that MOSS and other Microsoft turnkey apps are getting such a run in the enterprise space. Microsoft have hit on a winning formula providing the whole box and dice - from OS through to client tool (browser), no matter how mediocre. That's a pretty big platform to move WPF and Silverlight. What can Adobe provide? just some tools? little apps? LiveCycle and it's workflows and PDF? ColdFusion and BlazeDS? Adobe wouldn't know what to do in the Enterprise space - outside their skill set. when it comes time for pointy-haired managers to make a decision on what to purchase, the Microsoft version of "nobody got sacked for buying IBM" seems to apply. For them it's a no brainer. Again, what can Adobe provide? "Now the folks up in Redmond aren’t idiots" your right. they're not. it’s a shame that MOSS and other Microsoft turnkey apps are getting such a run in the enterprise space. Microsoft have hit on a winning formula providing the whole box and dice - from OS through to client tool (browser), no matter how mediocre. That’s a pretty big platform to move WPF and Silverlight. What can Adobe provide? just some tools? little apps? LiveCycle and it’s workflows and PDF? ColdFusion and BlazeDS? Adobe wouldn’t know what to do in the Enterprise space - outside their skill set.

when it comes time for pointy-haired managers to make a decision on what to purchase, the Microsoft version of “nobody got sacked for buying IBM” seems to apply. For them it’s a no brainer. Again, what can Adobe provide?

“Now the folks up in Redmond aren’t idiots”

your right. they’re not.

]]> By: barry.b http://www.brooksandrus.com/blog/2008/05/14/can-microsoft-make-wpf-successful/#comment-45442 barry.b Wed, 14 May 2008 12:09:33 +0000 http://www.brooksandrus.com/blog/2008/05/14/can-microsoft-make-wpf-successful/#comment-45442 "Microsoft primed its PR pump (wined and dined everyone you can imagine), rattled its saber and deployed its vanguard of tech journalists and evangelists..." was it a George Bernard Shaw quote that went "there's only one thing worse than being talked about ..." "..and that's *not* being talked about..." “Microsoft primed its PR pump (wined and dined everyone you can imagine), rattled its saber and deployed its vanguard of tech journalists and evangelists…”

was it a George Bernard Shaw quote that went “there’s only one thing worse than being talked about …”

“..and that’s *not* being talked about…”

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