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Re: Blindness of closed source software company

Yann Malet — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:37:57 -0000

http://usa.autodesk.com/com...

If the link above represent BIM I am affraid that nohing new will come from there. It look likes yet anther propaganda based on a new accronyme put on 15 years old technology.

I do not see any reference to one of the 6 core principals of web 2.0.
I am looking forward reading your next post.
--yml

Re: Blindness of closed source software company

oleg — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:41:14 -0000

MS started to compete - doesn't mean they did :)... and they are always coming second to the game.

Data is something will need to come to the next level of usage. Today is too closed and incompatible, but it will change fast in the future. PLM will not succeed to keep current licensing model for long run- in my view it will start explode from different sides- mostly from growing platform capabilities in Oracle and MOSS as well from disruptive technologies that will come from 3D and gaming zone.

Regards
Oleg

Re: Blindness of closed source software company

oleg — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:34:16 -0000

Yann, Excellent view. I liked it. Actually if you took GIS as potential path between Google map and PLM, I'd like to take one more step and see BIM. I think BIM made several successful steps in bridging GIS to product development (many be in context of AEC and not mechanical).
I will touch it my next posts for sure.
Regards
Oleg

Re: Blindness of closed source software company

Yann Malet — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:20:21 -0000

Answer to a comment done by Oleg on its blog :

Oleg,
Facts as stubborn Microsoft is not able to compete with what is generally known as LAMP in the web 2.0 realm. LAMP is much more larger than (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) in fact I like to present it as a robust OS, webserver, Database, interpreted language.
And for each of them you have several contender that have their own quality and usecase :
- OS : Linux, BSD, Open Solaris, Mac
- Webserver : Apache, nginx, lighthttpd, cherorkee
- Database : Mysql, postgresql, DB2, Oracle
- Interpreted language : Python, PHP, Perl, ...

And it is also intersted to not that all this pieces converge and is being used / supported to some extend in cloud computing that give them instant google like scalability (see amazon web services, google appengine. )

"Data is the Next Intel Inside" : this point is important and to understand it you also need to understand that since data has a lot of value you need to be sure that you control it. I do not see this possible with the licensing model PLM is proposing.

"Lightweight Programming Models" in that world you go from idea to prototype in a couple of hours. When I write prototype I talking about software not powerpoint.

To put it in a nutshell no MS is not competing in that area and not so far ago they used to call it "cancer". And to some extend I think they were true about the word but the cancer is not that stack but the fact that human being want to have freedom of choosing what they do with their precious data.