Henry's Points

I recently went to realDeveloper tour hold by Microsoft. The topic of this year is around web application. The next release of .NET will be launched on Feb some day next year. Everybody is happy with that. Although Silverlight is not major topic of the presentation, a quite lot people brought the question about that. If you go to Silverlight website, you will find out that it is actually a kind of new technology to compete with AJAX.

Well, what’s wrong with AJAX? Microsoft listed several problems that currently we always encountered. However, in my opinion, Microsoft is intent to come up with new technology, which can be binding with .NET platform and which can compete any technology that does not belong to Microsoft. I should say, Cool!

Here brought a question: What are you selling? Most people think that, companies are suppose to sell products, which are either hardware or software. It’s true. However, in the real world, we can probably group all companies to three levels. The third level companies are selling products. The second level companies are selling solutions, such as IBM. The first level companies are actually selling technical standard, such as Microsoft, Oracle and Cisco. It would not be surprised that Microsoft tried to replace XML by XAML.

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