Disqus - Latest Comments for David Wilkinson

Re: Started a Media Empire

David Wilkinson — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:54:40 -0000

Brilliant, simply brilliant. Permission to use the "Corporate Internet Rules" video as an opening to my next corporate demo for Sharepoint Portal Server?

Re: Yahoo’s new pretty maps are doomed (and so are Microsoft’s)

David Wilkinson — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 12:40:46 -0000

Scoble,
You got it right. Thanks for articulating thoughts I have been having lately, and putting them together in a cogent way. Keep listening to the users, not the developers. The users are the boss, the users are in charge, they have the attention, and the money to buy it. The developers are not listening. They need to listen...

Re: Sam Ramji opens SaaS program at Microsoft

David Wilkinson — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 17:56:24 -0000

Scoble,

I tried to complain and microsoft (mail4.microsoft.com) bounced with this detail message.

Reporting-MTA: dns;hotmail.com
Received-From-MTA: dns;mail.hotmail.com
Arrival-Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 13:49:34 -0800

Final-Recipient: rfc822;sramji@microsoft.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.7.1
Diagnostic-Code: smtp;550 5.7.1

Here is the text of my response:

Hi,

I like that you are trying to do something to respond to this bleak situation. Compared to .NET, it costs almost nothing for me to develop on the LAMP platform. I can get a powerful DELL-based Linux, VPS server with all the development tools and goodies that I need for $50/month.

Until you get the cost of setting up a development environment under $100, you will not see enough traction to make a difference for MS business.

I am working on a Sharepoint/Infopath/.NET implementation. I wish I could use my WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySql, PHP) FREE environment (or Ruby on
Rails) to develop this on.

As it is now, under the MS umbrella of software development offerings, I am going to need to shell out at least $2000, maybe more to get it going, and I am already a MS Partner Member!

I am not happy about this. I think that MS needs to find a way to subsidize the developers and set them free.

Keep going and keep trying.

Regards,
David Wilkinson
http://blogs.opml.org/thewilk/

I would appreciate it if you could forward this to Sam, as it appears that microsoft does not like hotmail accounts.

Thanks...

Re: Things you won’t find on Memeorandum

David Wilkinson — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 03:07:14 -0000

Thanks for posting this. In the last few weeks of reading tech.memeorandum I realize that I have been missing something that I enjoy very much. That is: the sheer human creativity that is out there on the net.
-wilk