if you look at cargo ship over time. we are building bigger and bigger cargo ship while everyone's blue water navy have been diminishing. it will be interesting if U.S. exit the global stage and stop patrolling the ocean.
are we going back to colonialism era where everyone build up a navy to escort goods or we are at the point that we can trade goods peacefully without a strong Navy escort.
why is this trash got submitted? author picked Django but trash talk PHP. Apple to Apple. shouldn't you compare Django to laravel? Wikipedia, WP, Facebook and countless other site/project have been build with PHP. so...like WTF?
> author picked Django but trash talk PHP. Apple to Apple. shouldn't you compare Django to laravel?
I understand that as exactly what was written. Plain old PHP is the old thing here. It could be a PHP vs Laravel comparison instead of PHP vs Django as well.
You significantly overestimate people’s level of self control and also the amount of money time and effort companies put in to make these technologies addictive.
it's funny to read a rant from a ex-Microsoft and sad that he doesn't know why Microsoft still have a vast market share.
I've been in the IT game for 10+ years. small/mid companies doesn't have the budget or man powers to leave the MS's lala land and they can care less. IT is a money losing dept and they need to make money by focus on what they do best.
Windows is a platform where most of their software work and their employees know.
do you think small/mid or heck the giant corporation have the money, staff and time to move their employees and operation out of Windows.
IT costs money yes, but it's not like there is ZERO ROI. Just because the value isn't immediately obvious doesn't mean it's not helping the business and it's bottom line. I agree that certain aspects of IT you should try to minimize cost because the value add is minimal, or because throwing more money at that aspect of IT does not help the business. But other aspects of IT that improve efficiency of the organization or even multiply the capabilities of the business will give you a significant ROI. Just to put it into perspective, is Marketing your business exclusively lose you money? Obviously not. There is an ROI, but it's not always immediately measurable.
I'm sorry whatever education or experience had failed you in seeing this. The successful business will recognize the value of every department and attempt to maximize the return where it makes sense.
I agree with your other points. The entire business industry is on Windows. Almost all applications work on Windows or integrate with Windows. Most employees are experienced with Windows. the cost of retraining, the loss of potential talent, the cost of not being able to integrate fully with other businesses that are on Windows are some of the reasons why they are entrenched.
I have a finance degree, business degree, comp sci degree, and run my own business plus have worked IN IT at successful multi-million dollar orgs and the most successful focus on IT as well as other departments to push value add investment in those departments.
Windows has been losing mindshare for years. That's why it is finally competing again. Maybe it will recover its super-dominant position but it's more likely to fade out slowly.
The fabs are in Taiwan. The people who operate the fabs are in Taiwan.
The people who do the R&D for all the processes live in Taiwan. The people who create the Intellectual Property live in Taiwan.
Analogously, many decades ago Mitsubishi Group, a Japanese company, bought Rockefeller Center. Ha ha. Good luck with that. If things didn't work out it's not like they could disassemble 30 Rock and put it on a boat to Japan. Unsurprisingly they no longer own it.
It's not like before WWII when the Japanese bought one of the elevated subway lines in NYC and disassembled it for steel and shipped it back home to build battleships.
TSMC's assets are in fabs that are difficult to disassemble without great expense. And the other important assets go home every night. "Foreign investment" isn't able to spirit them out of the country.
TSMC is a Taiwanese company. Who gives a fuck what some bookkeeping entries in some computer ledgers say about "foreign investment".
> It's not like before WWII when the Japanese bought one of the elevated subway lines in NYC and disassembled it for steel and shipped it back home to build battleships.
> I found a Wikipedia discussion, but it is by no means dispositive:
It seems fairly so on the claim that Japan bought the el, dismantled it, and shipped the steel home; it is less dispositive on the question of whether some of the steel either reached Japan or freed up other steel for shipment to Japan when it was dismantled by it's actual civic owners, who had no connection to Japan.
Shareholders of such things are sometimes proxies for the true powers hidden behind. Money is not a democracy. There are national interests at stake here, and then I'm not talking about Taiwan's national interest.
Shareholders typically don't vote on things like that directly, but they can vote for Directors who usually have the power to fire/hire CEO's who then make decisions like new locations.
are we going back to colonialism era where everyone build up a navy to escort goods or we are at the point that we can trade goods peacefully without a strong Navy escort.