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Windows Programming 20 Years Later
I’ve spent some time recently looking at the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). WPF is part of Vista, part of .NET 3.0 and part of Silverlight. At some level, I’m disappointed with WPF. After hearing so much about it (but ignoring it) during the last few years, I expected it to be a radical new way of…
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Open Source vs. Proprietary Software vs. Good Software
I had the opportunity to spend a few hours at Oscon yesterday in Portland, Oregon. Oscon is the Open Source Conference held by O’Reilly. I was pleasantly surprised by the size of the conference, the number of exhibitors and the presence of several large companies. Open source software has definitely become mainstream and accepted by…
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The Narrow Road Between Success and Failure
Before I started Likewise Software, I was in the venture capital business. Although my role was more on the “back end”, performing due diligence once we’d decided to invest in a company, I heard many, many pitches from aspiring entrepreneurs. For the great majority of these pitches (probably 95% of them or so), I recommended…