Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 13:06:14 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Bill explains .NET vaporware to Steve] Message-ID: <20000714130614.T30012@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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----- Forwarded message from "David L. Sifry" <dsifry@linuxcare.com> ----- > > Something for all of you conspiracy theorists out there... :-) > > Dave > -- > David L. Sifry, Chief Technology Officer > Linuxcare, Inc. > 415.354.4236 tel, 415.701.7457 fax > dsifry@linuxcare.com, http://www.linuxcare.com/ > > Linuxcare. Support for the revolution. > Delivered-To: dsifry@linuxcare.com > User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022 > Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 11:12:42 +0900 > To: "David L. Sifry" <dsifry@linuxcare.com> > X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 > > biztech conf Topic 134: Microsoft Antitrust Litigation, continued > # 684: A mean kinda funny. (dmasson) Tue Jul 11 00(09:50) 101 lines > > Something that found its way to one of my mailing lists: > > Bill and Steve sat down for their weekly meeting. After some chit-chat . . > . > > SB: Bill, all week I've been hearing rumours about this .Net thing you're > cooking up. Some of the rumours say it's a better way of providing > services > to our > customers, and that doesn't sound right. > > BG: It's not. > > SB: Well what is it then? > > BG: It's a way of tying all of our products together, IIS, IE, Office, > all > tied to Windows, all using Microsoft development tools, and all relying on > Microsoft protocols > over the Internet. > > SB: Ah, that's more like it. So how are you planning to do it? > > BG: I don't know. > > SB: How's that? > > BG: Well, we need to provide some new functions that aren't available > today, > that people really need, and that only come with Microsoft servers and > clients. > And, we need to build these functions under the guise of doing something > else, so we can > spring them on the market by surprise. > > SB: That makes sense. If we announce our intentions up front, then that > rabble from Sherwood will have it up and running before we've finished our > marketing > plan, let alone our development plan. So what are the new functions? > > BG: I don't know. > > SB: Then why are we talking about it? > > BG: Wait, wait. I'm just getting to the good part. I have an idea on how > we > can get our customers to define the functions for us, without letting > anyone know that > that's what's happening. > > SB: Intriguing. Go on. > BG: Okay. First we announce .Net, and start a big promotion about how it's > going to change everything. We'll call it Next Generation or something. > > SB: Without even knowing what it is. > > BG: Right. > > SB: So what's new about that? > > BG: I haven't got to that part yet. > > SB: Okay. Business as usual. Then what? > > BG: So we keep churning the story with more announcements about how great > ".Net" is going to be. Then we look at all the cool stuff other people are > doing > is going to be. Then we look at all the cool stuff other people are doing > with the Internet, and we start including that with our announcements. Our > press > releases will say that Microsoft is making it possible to do those things > for the first > time. > > SB: Still business as usual. > > BG: Here's the good part. The online forums are going to be filled with > posts > saying that we're just copying everybody else. > > SB: And how does that help us? Get to the point. > > BG: Well some of our customers are bound to assume that we know what > we're > doing. > They'll be so convinced that we have something up our sleeve, and they'll > be > so bugged at those smug Linuxers, that they'll start defending us in the > newsgroups. > They'll start posting things like, "When Microsoft finishes .Net I'll > finally be able to do > such-and-such." And that's it. > > SB: That's what? > > BG: We watch all the forums and newsgroups. We collect all the posts that > say > "I'll finally be able to do such-and-such", and that's our new set of > functions. I > figure it should only take us about six months, or so, to get some idea of > what .Net > is. > > SB: [smiles] That's brilliant. Microsoft innovation strikes again! > And the sound of laughter rang through the halls of Redmond. > > ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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