TriNetre - Archive for February 18, 2004

Speaking of anti-Microsoft stuff, yesterday Evermore showed off a copy of Microsoft Office that was coded in Java. Funded by Chinese government. Oh, great, not only are we competing against programmers who get paid $2500 per year (or less), but we're competing against software funded by governments now too. Yeah, it's OK, they are just beating up on Microsoft, right? Well, wait until their government comes after your job. Is this having a chilling effect on the industry? You betcha. I was talking with several VCs this morning and they are looking for things that pay them back their investments even faster and for things that are harder to copy.