Robert Scoble, technical evangelist di Microsoft, ha pubblicato sul proprio blog le dodici ragioni per le quali i promotori del Web 2.0 non utilizzano prodotti Ms, toccando in pratica tutte le aree in cui le tecnologie Open Source sono superiori o sono percepite come tali dagli Opinion Leader. Interessante è la conclusione alla quale Scoble giunge:
Now, why am I telling you this stuff? After all, I’ve just given you a list of perceived competitive advantages for Linux, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, and others. Isn’t this yet another example of why Scoble should be fired for being negative on his own company?
No.
See, I don’t want uninformed customers. That doesn’t help me. It doesn’t help Microsoft. It doesn’t help the customers. I want you to ask your Microsoft salesperson the tough questions before you buy into any of our new Web stuff. And, I start with the presumption my readers are smart enough to use Google or MSN or Yahoo to find out this information anyway. If you don’t get the right answers from Microsoft when it comes time to consider new Web technologies/methodologies/tools, er, if we don’t answer these points above, then I want you to run to the competition (and I’ll help you go there, just like I did when I helped run a camera store in the 1980s). And, when we bring services out, or bring new Web strategies out, I want you to trust us because we treated you right and gave you all the information.
Ho apprezzato molto questo intervento tanto appassionato quanto costruttivo, e ho apprezzato ancora di più il fatto che Scoble abbia invitato David Heinemeier Hansson, creatore del famoso Ruby on Rails, ad andare in Microsoft per illustrare i propri progetti. Mi piacerebbe che anche i salesperson, con i quali dovremmo in teoria consultarci, fossero altrettanto obiettivi… sono un inguaribile utopista?