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Check it out. I don't have to exert much energy at all to let you know what the deal is. Hell yeah. Couldn't a done it better cause I did it myself. And here it is, ladies and gentlemens, prepackaged for us:
http://ragingbull.quote.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=AAPL&read=199237
By: danfl_11
27 Mar 2007, 02:39 AM EDT
Msg. 199237 of 199443d here's another one if you're curious:
http://ragingbull.quote.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=VCSY&read=158009
By: ajax203
06 May 2006, 03:58 PM EDT
Msg. 158009 of 179897
(This msg. is a reply to 157961 by RapidRobert2.)
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RR - I dont know why Im so flappergasketed about that Microsoft PR. It really sounds like Larry and Moe trying to explain why Curly is late with the thanksgiving turkey.
I know 90% of the people reading think this is completely ridiculous to say VCSY can trip up Microsoft. But maybe 10% were long time readers of this board since 2000 and they had a chance to watch the same things we all see. Those are the people that are carrying on a conversation about what might be happening between VCSY and IBM and what might be happening inside Microsoft and why.
What is so wierd is that the Microsoft things happening last year and now are what you would think would happen if somebody threw a monkey wrench into the Micrososft development. They cant make Vista work? Security? Vista is a system that tries to wrap all of the operating system ties to windows applications in a internet wrapper basically so you can control applications across the internet Its one of the easier things to do PLUS they own the applciations and the OS specs so they know exactly how things are going to behave. And they cant do that? They have armies of the best programmers in the world and they cant do it? The problem is their operating system has so much of a "kludged by committe" history they have to incorporate all that background compatability in whatever they do. Plus they have to wait on standards to be laid down so they can coral all the small players and keep them in line using the protocols. SiteFlash and Emily doesnt need any protocols other than what they decide to do since their system is standards transparent and arbitrary. If your system is based on a standard they can use you. If your system is proprietary they can use you.
It doesnt make sense for Microsoft to come up short like this and alot of people on the tech blogs are saying exactly that. What the hell does that mean?
IBM had a alphaworks XML Enabler they were advertising. After VCSY put out their XML ENabler Agent IBM retired their XML Enabler. What gives with that?
VCSY published a PR about Emily XML Enabler Agent in a top Redmond Washington technology magazine just a few weeks before Microsoft announced Hailstorm in 2001. Hailstorm went down in flames by the end of 2001.
Somebody compared VCSY having something better than what Microsoft has to be like comparing VHS and Betamax. And that would be true if Microsoft had something that worked and people liked to use. Thats what happened with VHS. more people were using it because it worked. Betamax died out slow because the tech geeks used it.
OK Ill buy that it is like that. So show me the VHS product Microsoft has in XML/SOAP SOA when the industry they are trying to reach is snickering about what they are doing. Micrososfts stuff is too complicated and that means workarounds because they cant go from point a to point b without screwing up their own standards or without crossing comebody elses IP backyard.
Maybe VHS has a dominant comparison here because just the size of the user base MSFT has. The fact that VCSy pulled advertising for the XML Enabler Agent package for $495 is really strange and it tells me Wade is in the bunker and hes not ready to come out until his IP and what they are trying to do with is safe. They need to start advertising right about now to face this flood of AJAX advertising and pieces and hype. Aand I know Microsoft is pooring money out the ### into AJAX and they wont say. They are pooring a billion dollars into a search engine. What does it do look for blue quarks out of a pile of green quarks? OK THATs a search engine.
Know what I think? Maybe VCSY is going to be the betamax that wins out because people get disgusted with MSFT. MSFT will ALWAYS be around because they have such a large user base and they have a huge store of cash and some of the best talent in the world. But their management lost direction when they started fighting over the stupid browser because they couldnt see the idea about the desktop moving from MyComputer to MyDesktop across a generally available network (the internet).
It looks like all Micrososoft knows about the internet is in the browser. DO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY? because they had a self interest in keeping Sun close like a buddy and away from IBM. So they lived off of Java and didnt realize until just recently what everybody else knew trying to match XML to Javascript. It dont work none too good.
So they needed a fix for that and Lo and cornholed it turns out Microsoft had it in their back room all that time. It crawled out of the back room with Mark Lukovsky when he went to Google in Jabuary 2005. Now its out on the world and the developers are extending what it can do. Its called AJAX and if you really take the time and effort to dig through the internet information on all this you can see like a movie with these actors reacting to something nobody can see.
Its like three giant stars orbiting around something that is invisible. MSFT Sun and IBM all working around a real XML RPC method that is simple and correct that will work on the http and be as loose coupled as the marbles in your pocket. If they go to somebody elses pocket they assume another class of coupling and associations. If you can stratify this activity over time you can track who what when and where such and so marble has been. Then you can ask yourself "Self. Why would people be trading marbles?" And you can granularly advance regress and branch or even transcend your inquiry (what a real search is supposed to look like)
And that brings me to the question about why nobody can see IT and why "nobody ever bought one". VCSY had the XML Enabler Agent "on sale" for $495. But when you tried to buy one they wanted so much background and information on use and the license basically said "Here ya go buy this sucker and whatever you end up making out of it beyond the XML Enabler Agent" is our invention and theank you very much for developing it for us." I didnt have a baby available to feed to them so I didnt go any closer to the cage.
The ony reason you do that is because you dont want people using your "publicly available" stuff until you coral up all the IP you can chase down before taking the covers off
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