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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator
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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (9947)6/4/1997 2:44:00 PM
From: Jim McDonald   of 24154
 
You're missing the point of what a platform is.

You still underestimate the individual's drive to be independent of any one company. My take is that MSFT's place in the desktop platform business is secure, but that NSCP has secured an equally permanent place in the nettop platform business of the planet's technocracy. How's that for poetic techno-speak? :)

NSCP provides an open platform that affords access to all of the application specific data types you've referred to.

Your descriptions of MSFT and Lotus are indicative of vertical application thinking, or of proprietary tool sets, not of platforms.

Analogy: In the Olymics, a platform diver is a diver, not a platform (unless he's into some kind of nirvana zen thing).

What does replication have to do with it?

Text is text (as in plain ASCII or whatever text). Anything else can be transmitted easily and perfectly over the net as binary. It's up to specific applications to worry about the content of their own proprietary content structures.

All I know is that everyday I fire up my current version of NSCP's NGUI on whatever OS I'm using wherever I am, and I get access to documents on the net, publish docs on the net (HTML, binary, text), send/receive extremely ornate email, etc. and I'm not tied to MSFT's latest vertically closed set of apps or Lotus's peculiar workgroup dinosaur. #:o)

...jm

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