Yet another opinion on how Microsoft, by embracing a market constraint (technology neutrality), is slowly going away from being the IT industry’s punching ball. Smart move, and old wisdom. Listen to your clients, they know what is good for you.

CIO Magazine: Who Roots for Goliath?

[…] Microsoft has been a convenient target, a symbol for all the vendors with whom CIOs have struggled, a convenient whipping boy for many of IT’s ills.

This may be changing. […] Senior Editor Scott Berinato notes that CIOs who once feared that .Net was part of an evil strategy designed to eternally lock them in to Microsoft products are now applauding it as a nice, robust development framework upon which they can hang their Web services. Far from being a way to lock them in, it turns out that .Net “fosters the technology neutrality they’re learning to expect.”

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