Interesting article - Macromedia vs microsoft

[Sir Yendor]

Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but here goes.

http://www.clickz.com/tech/ad_tech/article.php/1369331

quote from the article:

Flash is evolving into the operating system of interactive advertising. And with its new and increasingly powerful dynamic features, it is also beginning to achieve a level of excellence at which it may present legitimate competition to Microsoft's own Web application development tools. Whether Macromedia intends to compete on this level remains to be seen. Launching a head-to-head battle with Microsoft can be dangerous.

[mbannonb]

Windows was to DOS as Macromedia will be to HTML.

As for other aspects...

[farafiro1]

No wonder that now we are hearing about Microsoft wanna but Macromedia
so it will be SoftMedia heheheheeeeeeeee

[johnie]

Honestly where do people get stuff like this?

Flash isn't really a good platform for real heavy backend things but is excellent for the front end. ASP.NET is almost all backend stuff.

If you really want to look at it and get a small taste of what ASP.Net can do then go grab MS's Free tool Called ASP.NET Web Matrix http://www.asp.net/webmatrix/default...dex=4&tabid=46

The two aren't really competing but rather complimenting each other although you could also say that Flash compliments PHP, CGI, ECT ECT...




[Edited by johnie on 06-26-2002 at 12:09 PM]

[hurricaneone]

Is it possible that Microgeek consider Flash too advanced to bundle with it's standard browser, or even with an OS? You'd think if they cared, the standard practice of 'buy a similar software, adapt the software, weld the software (bugs'n'all), put the competitions' sales into a nosedive', would already been in the works.

I don't know (nor do I want to) the value/turnover/profit of MM, but I bet they're still just a snack on the menu of competitors to MS.

Anyway, I hope to hell they just leave well enough alone. Everything Microsoft touchs seems to become a bland, indifferent shell of its former self, simply because they need to set the user levels for the lowest common denominator.