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Dan Jones MSFT — Sun, 14 May 2006 05:36:14 GMT

Two great points Colin. First, lack of skills: your comments support my point of view that too many people call themselves developers (or DBAs) when in fact they don't have adequate training. Second, product quality. I worked for a couple of years at a software tools company. I was appalled at how much they could charge for tools that lacked basic quality. I don't know who is worse: the company that sells such products or the customers who purchase them.

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Colin Leversuch-Roberts — Thu, 11 May 2006 10:25:52 GMT

I too am bored with microsoft knocking, as a long time production DBA I am still appalled at the poor quality of third party applications deployed upon SQL Server, seemingly the more expensive the application/product the worse it is. I won't produce a list but illustrate with an example of when a server upgrade was requested because of poor performance. I pointed out the lack of indexes, non ansi sql, use of nested cursors, temporary tables. The response I had was that all the tables had primary keys so how could the indexing be wrong.
Microsoft provides more than adequate platforms and tools - it seems to me many developers lack the skills to use them effectively.

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Dan Jones MSFT — Thu, 11 May 2006 00:24:14 GMT

This subject is a bit off topic for this blog topic, but, it's interesting nonetheless and maybe I'll blog on it in the future. I'll ask you this, without addressing whether or not MSFT innovates: what is wrong with implementing a follower strategy? The name of the game is increasing shareholder value. There are numerous examples of companies that were first to market, but weren't able to convert that leadership into shareholder value. Also, a follower strategy doesn't guarantee success. There are even more examples of companies that have employed a follower strategy but weren't successful.

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tjhooker — Wed, 10 May 2006 23:26:45 GMT

So howcome Microsoft is always playing catchup these days?

Google Earth, oh dont forget Mappoint that "also ran"! (which has bugger all coverage).

Internet Explorer, yup, Firefox/Mozilla is right there, IE is only there as an also ran by force.

Vista, well OS X is there today, vista is well, still becoming "thinner" :)

Axapta, playing catchup to SAP still.

What is MS AHEAD in thesedays? They are too spread out and diluting their innovation in favour of aquisitions and running behind everybody else.

Its a fat, bloated and slow manager corp these days.

re: Software Quality

Dan Jones MSFT — Wed, 10 May 2006 23:11:34 GMT

I asserted a long time ago that posting a comment to a blog will not make you appear any more intelligent than you really are. You’ve proven me right. Thank you.

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HAH — Wed, 10 May 2006 19:10:37 GMT

Software quality at Microsoft. LOL. Im tired of the arrogant devs there. Im going to Google. No, seriously, Microsoft is for MANAGERS and buttkissers and those devs who just are stuck in a RUT. Google is for TECHNICAL people.

How to be successful at Microsoft. Kiss ass and being VISIBLE (kissing ass basically via Powerpoint)