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Originally Posted by TomCollins
MSFT is pretty terrible at innovation. They were really good at taking other peoples innovations and either copying them or finding a way to make money with them. Perhaps you could call them innovative businessmen, but their technology has always been far from innovative.
Your average business...
Does not require leading edge innovation...
And, certainly, does not require "coolness"...
And "software politics" has NO PLACE.
Business requires stable, supported, ubiquitous software...
And ubiquitous, interchangeable hardware...
That everyone is familiar with...
That can be fixed anywhere...
At a reasonable price...
And that's the platform you build on.
As a software engineer running a trading business...
I wouldn't touch Apple or Linux or anything exotic...
(Until you get into enterprise territory)...
Your infrastructure will cost 200-300% more in long run.
You will be held hostage by geeks extorting $100/hour.
On the other hand...
Everyone running a business should study this...
Steve Jobs 10 Commandments:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newswee...mandments.html