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Joel Spolsky on the differences between a Plat Form and an Application. Picking on GrOove (and Apple, and [NetWare], and IBM's [PS]/2) again, which I agree with. One of the biggest themes in software industry failures is a platform vendor that didn't understand that they were a platform vendor, so they alienated their key consituency: the developers. Now there's a response from Ray Ozzie. Healthy platform businesses are optimized mixtures of platform margins, layered application margins, and layered professional services margins, along with a very very healthy ecosystem doing the same. Companies like IBM are masters at this - as Doc says, playing the platform business like a chess board.
And Dave Mc Cusker is interested in cloning/emulating Hyper Card. He'd even like to get paid to do so. I wonder what such a business would look like (e.g. pricing model vs GrOove)?
And what are the implications for [User Creations]' Spring Desktop?
Bill Seitz, fluxent at gmail dot com, Weblog