Monday May 09, 2005 Sun Tzu: You take the low road and I'll take the high road
Sun Tzu in the Art of War teaches us: "All armies prefer high ground to low, and sunny places to dark." As reported at theregister.co.uk, Bill Gates at the WinHec conference hints he's going to address J2ME technology by not going directly after J2ME technology on the client (cell phones, PDAs, etc), with an OS to OS confrontation, but instead take the battle higher to the middleware layer where Microsoft Exchange servers have an advantage. See: Bill Gates hints Micro$oft Magneto to take mobile battle to middleware Good quote from The Register: Perhaps Gates was giving a clue when he told WinHec [addressing J2ME technology as a cell phone OS]: "There will be tons of operating systems. There will always be tons of software stacks in mobile phones."The one thing Bill doesn't quite realize is that if he takes the fight to the middleware layer, Linux and the rest of open source (like Apache Tomcat/Jetty, MySQL, JBoss, etc.) will have him for lunch in the mobile back-end space when J2ME and Java technologies become the client OS on cell phones, smartphones, PDAs, TV set-top boxes, etc. |
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