some blogged about it too
http://blogs.aspadvice.com/dgottlieb/archive/2005/02/19/2713.aspx
http://blogs.aspadvice.com/rbirkby/archive/2005/02/19/2708.aspx
http://blogs.aspadvice.com/ssmith/archive/2005/02/17/2697.aspx
http://blogs.aspadvice.com/pmurphy/archive/2005/02/17/2688.aspx
http://swigartconsulting.blogs.com/tech_blender/2005/02/grumpy_grimes.html
http://blogs.msdn.com/danielfe/archive/2005/02/22/378343.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/jroxe/archive/2005/02/25/380193.aspx
http://www.panopticoncentral.net/archive/2005/02/25/7725.aspx
The farewell letter sounds pretty inconsistent to me
I quote:
1) beeing ambitious and not having ambition are antipodes
"I think Microsoft was far too ambitious releasing far too many assemblies much too quickly"
"it has not shown any more conviction to the framework"
"Microsoft has clearly lost their confidence"
2) VB.NET is backwards compatible or not?
"It is worth pointing out that .NET in general has many similarities with VB (classic). "
" this backs up Karl E. Peterson's statement that VB.NET is just not VB"
"Instead, .NET has been retrofitted to the existing products and used to extend them"
3) Revenues:
" There have been a few .NET products written entirely in .NET; one such product is Microsoft CRM. However, these are not the main revenue generators"
OWA, Sharepoint (400 mil $), Biztalk 2004, MS SQL 2000 Reporting Services, Yukon (DTS in particular)? At least 1 bilion $ there - for sure - directly or indirectly. APIs sell platforms, ie OS, databases, middleware
4) "Optional"
"XP and Windows 2003, do not depend on .NET; and with XP, .NET is an optional component."
- have you ever heard of Antitrust, DoJ,settlements?
- I don't see any major software cos running *nix,*nux on Java
Please back up your stuff with data
5) New or old tech: please decide !!
"XAML, will mark the death of ASP"
6) Security: get a grip
"then they will indicate (as I do) that .NET is not the right technology for running under the privileges of the LOCALSYSTEM "