Re: Microsoft .NET frontending IBM i

[Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Joe Pluta
> The real new vista (no pun intended!) is the mobile device.  
> And for that, you're either doing iPhone or Android.  Microsoft missed 
> the boat so badly in this market that it may simply never recover.

I was baffled when I learned that Apple's market capitalization surpassed 
Microsoft's; just didn't see it coming.  Ten years ago they were struggling to 
stay afloat in a market monopolized by Microsoft.  They switched to consumer 
electronics, mobile computing and content, and the transformation of their 
market position is amazing.  Android is coming on strong, too.  I think 
Microsoft saw it coming, but it appears to me that their operations are so much 
geared around heavy desktop systems, that they really haven't figured out server 
technology.  They keep falling back to thick desktop computing under a new 
brand; aka Silverlight.

I'm interested in supporting mobile browsers, and one thing that fuels that 
interest is that we listened to industry thought leaders about modularizing code 
under an MVC model, and we can now see potentially across-the-board reuse of our 
server components to support mobile devices in addition to desktop clients.

-Nathan