27 Quotes by Dwight Davis

The basic model of selling software as a hosted service has finally started to get some traction,

They are on the cusp of bigger demand for Windows 2000, and actually now applications are rolling out that exploit Active Directory. They've gone through the Windows 2000 certification process -- I think 150 applications have gone through that, and 70 to 80 are server apps. The picture certainly is a lot more promising than it was a year ago.

This is just one step closer to reality. Now they've taken it a step further by specifying the services they are going to offer. It's nice that it sort of puts meat on the bones for .NET, but it's still at the vaporware stage. The bulk of the suite is still far from beta (test version).

This is just one step closer to reality, ... Now they've taken it a step further by specifying the services they are going to offer. It's nice that it sort of puts meat on the bones for .NET, but it's still at the vaporware stage. The bulk of the suite is still far from beta (test version).

Not just Microsoft but everybody has been trying to come up with new ways to increase their penetration into that smaller part of the market.

SOAP created a common way for two different pieces of software to connect to each other. In the past, many applications were monolithic--made up of hundreds of thousands of lines of 'spaghetti' code. It was tough to modify any one piece without causing a ripple effect.

Interestingly, it sort of raises some of the issues about Microsoft bundling features into the operating system, which of course has been core to the whole antitrust issue.

I really just see it as a placeholder, it's really not all that important.

The gap certainly will close dramatically with Active Directory. NT's directory services have been fairly widely deployed, even given its reputation as a dog, and Novell hasn't taken over the world. You have to assume Active Directory is going to do pretty well.