What a let-down

The headline is completely misleading. It should say: Microsoft Acquires Teamprise Assets, Promises Support for Cross-Platform Clients for Team Foundation Server. That’s what actually happened. Of course, after that disappointment, I started venting on Twitter and in IRC channels, and much to my surprise, Julie Bort (one of Network World’s community editors) emailed and asked me for some clarification of my thoughts.

Before I send you over to their blog to read what I wrote, I want to say two things:

First, the Teamprise products are great. They just aren’t anything at all like what the headline tried to make it sound like

Second, my main point is this:

Ultimately, all of these announcements are about allowing developers on Linux and Mac to use WINDOWS SERVERS — clearly Microsoft feels they’ve won the desktop war (you’ll note there’s no move here to further support for Mono or to port WPF to Linux or Mac, or even to support Silverlight on Linux — they’re leaving that to lag further and further behind), and is now moving to challenge the use of “light” Linux to serve up web apps, server clouds, and teamwork/collaboration/and source-control servers.

Read the rest of my rant