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diff --git a/spm-slides.tex b/spm-slides.tex index a4f0f2e..ebe76c6 100644 --- a/spm-slides.tex +++ b/spm-slides.tex @@ -321,6 +321,8 @@ Non-trivial and incompatible interfaces: ftp, telnet, email, gopher, lynx. Limited to people with resonable programming skills. +Netscape's contribution: first made Internet accessible to normal people. + Netscape versus IE in early days (mid and late 1990's). \begin{itemize} @@ -383,6 +385,8 @@ Informix: database access through browsers. Poor product, poor product decisions, product direction. +Became too big. Stopped innovation. + {\em Feature creep}. Kept adding features with ``no break, no time for rearchitecture''. Consequences: (1) Messy codebase. (2) Buggy product. %Feature bloat (too ambitious). Bloatware. Groupware. @@ -395,6 +399,7 @@ MISTAKE. Try to do everything from scratch (in year 1998). Anti-Microsoft. + %JOEL SPOLSKY https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/ {\bf IE's upper hand}. |