Moving the Point of Assembly
Kudos to Zoho. Their efforts remind me of the
early days of the Microsoft Productivity
Environment where core MSOffice editors expanded
their reach through DDE, OLE, rich copy/paste,
data binding, merged content and data, VBA
scripting and the infamous recorder, and a
developer API that meshed platform and
productivity apps so deeply into end user
information that the binding of business processes
to the MOPE is proving near impossible to break.
Even for years after the fact.
A business ecosystem for client/server was born
back in the early 90's, with Microsoft continuing
on to own entirely the client side of the
equation.
uh oh. I'm not so worried about IE specific features or Silverlight only features as i am about MOSS 2010 specific features (MSOffice desktop and SharePoint-SQL Server). Especially critical will be the OLE, VBA scripting, and data bindings feature sets.
How will Microsoft move these stalwarts of the local MOPE (Microsoft Productivity Environment and Client/Server WorkGroup) to the Web? The end game here is for Microsoft to successfully move the desktop MOPE "Point of Assembly" to a Web centered SharePoint-SQL Server MOPE. And cut Oracle out in the process.