Comments on: YahooSoft? Nope.

By: Ronald Carpentier

Ronald Carpentier — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:16:35 +0000

I am also not saying that it’s a fight between good and bad. My main impression though is that both Microsoft and Yahoo! don’t have a real vision yet on how to create value for customers on the web. And often, these value adding initiatives are more open by nature. And my guess is that that’s a DNA issue. Hope they can figure it out though because we would be better off with 2 ‘Google’s’.

By: Ton

Ton — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:19:59 +0000

I am not sure. With (eg) Yahoo and Microsoft both supporting the DataPortability initiative, I expect them to jump the ‘Open’ bandwagon as well. On the other hand, Google is no small player either. I cannot predict where Google is going with its tracking of basically everything I do on the Web (to its credit, because Google has the best Web services).
The future will tell, but I wouldn’t want to consider the rivalry between MicrosHoo and Google as a fight between bad and good.

By: Ansgar

Ansgar — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:36:08 +0000

Why do companies continue to believe that If you put two dogs together you get a pony? ~ Jon Fine, Business Week media columnist