Comments on: SurfRay Management Change http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2009/07/31/surfray-management-change/ by Stephen E. Arnold Thu, 24 May 2012 16:47:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Martin Muldoon http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2009/07/31/surfray-management-change/comment-page-1/#comment-62424 Martin Muldoon Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:19:49 +0000 http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/?p=7663#comment-62424 The key to building on top of the Microsoft platform is to innovate. If you you don't, you are simply plugging holes in the offered platform and the product team will take what you've done and offer it in the next release. A real company should not have a shelf life of three years. Within three months, Microsoft will announce what is coming next (At the SharePoint Conference http://www.mssharepointconference.com/Pages/default.aspx). Any ISV that has been gap filling will see the fruit of their labor in the next product. This is not a way to run a company. Innovation is the key to partnering w/ Microsoft as an ISV. Boolean and Wildcard just doesn't cut it. Martin. The key to building on top of the Microsoft platform is to innovate. If you you don’t, you are simply plugging holes in the offered platform and the product team will take what you’ve done and offer it in the next release. A real company should not have a shelf life of three years.

Within three months, Microsoft will announce what is coming next (At the SharePoint Conference http://www.mssharepointconference.com/Pages/default.aspx). Any ISV that has been gap filling will see the fruit of their labor in the next product. This is not a way to run a company.

Innovation is the key to partnering w/ Microsoft as an ISV. Boolean and Wildcard just doesn’t cut it.

Martin.

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