Booch - The Fundamental Difference Between IBM & Microsoft’s Strategy
A great interview with Grady Booch over on InfoWorld.com
Not something I would usually take much notice of, however I found it quite interesting that Booch pointed out that one of the fundamental differences between M$ and IBM continues to be open standards. M$ is still trying to lock people into a propiertary model (will they never learn?). Booch also talks about LAMP, Websphere and his love of Eclipse - definitely an interesting read.
Checked out Grady Booch’s blog and it turns out he’s a real Mac OS & open source tweaker, well worth a read. Seems that my theory that all the enlightened souls of the IT world use a Mac is still holding true.
This knowledge thread started back on these blog entries which caught my eye:
Rationalizing PHP and Java
IBM is articulating the value of LAMP wrong
And in particular, this statement:
Its important to understand when IBM talks about scale, it really means something different from the rest of us. Danny, when he thinks about scale, thinks about the requirements of the biggest IT shops in the world. The top 20, say. When IBM bought Informix it initially classified Sears as a medium-sized customer… When IBM thinks of scale it thinks of problems nobody else can solve, where TPF and IMS-like models come in.
For me this validates the use of the LAMP stack in our market-space, being small-to-medium business. Why go Java and Websphere when the scaling requirements simply do not exist. This is the LAMP niche and in my opinion it excels here.
