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    Developers Trust Will Be Hard to Earn

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    Peter Coffee
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    March 11, 2002
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      When I posted my review of Microsofts Visual Studio .Net on our Web site, I included an interactive poll to learn more about your interests and concerns. (You can review many of our poll results at www.eweek.com/poll_archive.)

      I asked readers to tell me what gave them greatest pause as they contemplated the climb up the Visual Studio .Net learning curve: its changes to familiar languages, such as Visual Basic; its formidable array of new Web services development and testing facilities; or the potential nuisance of unintended platform lock-in that might come along with the package, corrupting what they had hoped would be standards-based technologies.

      In an admittedly unscientific sample (since people with no concerns at all could easily ignore a poll that asked about their “biggest concern”), the fear of “undesired coupling between Web standards and Microsoft protocols” quickly surged past 50 percent of the more than 2,000 responses. I see this result not necessarily as an indictment of Microsofts .Net strategy, but certainly as a clear statement of the communication challenge that faces the company—and as a warning that developers are hypersensitized to any hint that the company might do again what it has done before.

      For the benefit of anyone who has already forgotten, Ill quote a key paragraph from last summers ruling by the Court of Appeals: “Microsoft intended to deceive Java developers and predicted that the effect of its actions would be to generate Windows-dependent Java applications that their developers believed would be cross-platform. … Microsofts conduct related to its Java developer tools served to protect its monopoly of the operating system in a manner not attributable either to the superiority of the operating system or to the acumen of its makers and therefore was anti-competitive. Unsurprisingly, Microsoft offers no pro-competitive explanation for its campaign to deceive developers. Accordingly, we conclude this conduct is exclusionary, in violation of [Section] 2 of the Sherman Act.”

      Imagine re-reading that paragraph with “XML Web services” replacing “Java.” Recall Microsoft Group VP Bob Muglia saying that .Net services would be free of charge—on Windows. Its easy to see why a majority of our poll respondents are more worried about what they dont (yet?) see in .Nets tools than they are about their visible opportunities and challenges.

      Tell me why history doesnt matter at peter_coffee@ziffdavis.com.

      Peter Coffee
      Peter Coffee is Director of Platform Research at salesforce.com, where he serves as a liaison with the developer community to define the opportunity and clarify developers' technical requirements on the company's evolving Apex Platform. Peter previously spent 18 years with eWEEK (formerly PC Week), the national news magazine of enterprise technology practice, where he reviewed software development tools and methods and wrote regular columns on emerging technologies and professional community issues.Before he began writing full-time in 1989, Peter spent eleven years in technical and management positions at Exxon and The Aerospace Corporation, including management of the latter company's first desktop computing planning team and applied research in applications of artificial intelligence techniques. He holds an engineering degree from MIT and an MBA from Pepperdine University, he has held teaching appointments in computer science, business analytics and information systems management at Pepperdine, UCLA, and Chapman College.
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