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==Competition== | ==Competition== | ||
Macromedia, with Flash, has already amazing market | Macromedia, with Flash. Microsoft is working on XAML, which is just around the corner. Both want to address this new-generation Web apps space. How are we going to respond? Do we want them to own this space? | ||
Macromedia has already amazing market presence (FLEX runs on Flash). Their weakness is their business model, as they try to sell servers (you need specific FLEX servers to run FLEX apps). | |||
Microsoft is a great platform company. They have developer mindshare, they have great development tools. They have huge marketing budgets. Eventually, they will also get nice marketshare, with IE7 being shipped with every new PC. | |||
How are we going to compete? Dow we want to? | |||
How can we leverage our assets (namely being open-source)? | |||
==General questions== | ==General questions== | ||
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[[http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2004/03/31.html|John Udell on XAML and FLEX ]] sums it up quite nicely: | [[http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2004/03/31.html|John Udell on XAML and FLEX ]] sums it up quite nicely: | ||
''"We had a great thing going for about 10 years: the universal HTML/JavaScript client. And while it's still a great thing, there are good reasons to advance the state of the art. But can we please, please not lose the standardization that's served us so well?"'' | |||
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* With XAML around the corner, with Microsoft having a huge leverage with their developer community and set of tools (and marketing dollars), being open-source and an open-format is our way to make sure that our innovations are going to make a dent in the market; | * With XAML around the corner, with Microsoft having a huge leverage with their developer community and set of tools (and marketing dollars), being open-source and an open-format is our way to make sure that our innovations are going to make a dent in the market; | ||
* We probably do not want the web to balkanize the Web with XUL / XAML / FLEX just like it used to be in Browser War I with (D)HTML. | |||