[CALUG] Convert. Web pages in .asp to html

[Bryan J Smith]

Dale Vogel <dalevogel at verizon.net> wrote:

>  Nice post.
>

This is not only happening over and over (yet the latest, nothing new [1]),
but I've been "on-the-front-line" in both government and at household name
companies.

The ultimate irony is that I don't even have to say, "I told you so."  My
bigger issues has always been, "You now have inertia that is pushing you to
port to yet another, soon-to-be-abandoned, solution.  So you're going to go
through this again and again unless you make a _strategic_ decision to
align to open standards as much as possible."

Do yourself a favor, and dump Microsoft, and you won't have to worry about
> conversions in the future.
>

You don't even have to say "avoid Microsoft" or use the phrase "use open
source."

The reality is "risk mitigation."  Microsoft has a huge wake of tens of
billions of dollars of lost IP at major entities.  From industry-leading
firms like Boeing to most divisions of the US Federal government,
organizations that must maintain 20+ years of document and interface
compatibility, that Microsoft tends to be the _least_ viable solution of
even alleged "proprietary" vendors.  It is because Microsoft is poor at
even maintaining a proprietary standard that they are a non-option.

If you deal with Microsoft Solutions Providers, the entire approach is to
get enterprises upgrading every 24 months if at all possible, and within 36
months "worst case."  It's their model, based on the end-consumer
superstore model where 90% of home consumers just concede 24 month upgrade
cycles of their entire PC, apps, periperals, etc...  It's a very, very
_profitable_ model, especially in the vertical space.  It's also one of the
biggest wastes of human capital and time.

Open standards, real open standards, are what should drive things based on
mitigating risk.  I'm really waiting for the ISO to put the ultimate "smack
down" on Microsoft over MS Office alone.

-- bjs

[1]
http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/05/04/0224248/uk-benefits-claimants-must-use-windows-xp-ie6


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Bryan J Smith - Professional, Technical Annoyance
b.j.smith at ieee.org - http://www.linkedin.com/in/bjsmith
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