<RCM, I've visited your site recently, but I can't find the forest for the trees. Sorry, it's a backhanded compliment. You've got so much junk, err, I mean resource links and other stuff on your site that I get scatter brained when confronted with it.Pretty cool, though.>
Thanks for the compliment. Luckily, I've got about 45,000 analysts, conslutants, and CEO's, CFO's treasurers, accountants, individuall investors, and mutual and pension fund managers to back me (and MSFT technology) up, or I would be lost.
What do you think the most popular development platforms/technologies are on Wall Street? Not anything based on Corba or Java. VB, VBA/Excel, and C++, by a long shot, nearly all extensions of Office. Yes, large custom jobs are done in C (and some obscure languages such as S) and on Unix, but the BIG money is where the REAL activity is, front and middle end work, highly customized, rapidly developed GUI front ends and custom math libraries that hook into Excel.
How else do you think I can get 45,000 busy executives to come to my forest with no trees (or something like that), with no Java, Netscape solutions, or CORBA. Oh yeah, the site is not particulary UNIX friendly either. I took a calculated risk, since most web browisng is done form Windows, hence it made economic sense to specialize on the majority instead of lessen functionality for all. That is why web orientated software companies relase for 95/NT first/exclusively (even the "open" NSCP). Now, everybody can't be wrong.
<In my business, (developing embedded software, data comm & distributed apps) I find that a lot of the most brilliant, forward thinking researchers and innovators are Unix oriented. Meaning that all the ActiveX goodies you're alluding to, are unnecesary and pretty much ignored, kind of like the sound of a tree falling in the forest when nobody's there.>
Is your business where the majority of the money is? Did you see Jerry McGuire? You know what he asked. The high end has the highest margins, but the lowest volume, something like a Lamborghini dealer. The low end has the highest volume but commodity like margins, like Yugo's (okay maybe Hyandais). I would stick to the Ford Taurus (Microsofts) of the bunch. That's where the bulk of the money lies, the middle end. Once you have a secure mid-level niche/cash cow, you can then afford to conquer the by now complacent high end guys (via a price war) and actually offer a better value per dollar incentive to the customers of the commodity (low priced product) vendors. Does that strategy sound familiar?
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You do have a point, I need to find an active site map for the site. Should I use Active X.?? :-) |
