look at what micorsoft is habitual at doing, 1) they are not strong in a particualr software space that some else owns ( ellison ?oracle) early mid 90's they develop their own platform with hooks into their o/s license and suport the hell out of SQL server to get market share and the HOARDS of devleopers going DOwn this road with customers
once they are down the road and deploying with customers and the u turn is expensive for customers and developers , they change the rules of hte game and or jack the shit out of the prices, I.E SQl server
This is so microsoft, one of these days
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Originally Posted by Anonymous It looks like John's post on Aug 28, 2003 is coming true. Microsoft's stratagy seems to be very well thought out.
First Microsoft encourages fleet tracking companies to grow the market.
Second they add confusing language to the EULA which seems to restrict use for Tracking. (But they don't seem to enforce it. Hmmm, I wonder why?)
Third, they come out with a product that is directed right at business users, which is the core business of the fleet tracking companies.
Finally the coupe de grace, (this is my guess) Microsoft targets Fleet Tracking companies clients. (They even know who the MapPoint users are.) They starts enforcing the EULA and within 1-2 yrs, they are the only company left providing fleet tracking with MapPoint.
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