There are tens of thousands of people out there developing applications on Microsoft Exchange, yet there is little that Microsoft knows about this developer community.
For example, what applicati...
Updated Jul 01, 2019
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Intention of my first comment was not to create a pick thread on MS the "do no "evil"live" company, but express a rather reflective thought regarding their apparent fishing of existing/thriving business models around exchange as they seems/indicates to be out of touch with their own product and it's usage. (Maybe because they have forgotten/neglected to work together/in pair with their partners?)
Well, I don't see a risk of MS stealing our applications, however I wonder how the business model is intended to work for us partners? We are heading towards the cloud and trying to figure out our dev/customization business model on top of Exchange in it's current form by this survey makes me questioning their direction. All the power they have, all the opportunities and they continue to slip. Guys, the world is changing, me and my generation of "do it right from the start" are dying. Up and run, get the dough, adapt to reality. "Information at your finger tip" => "follow Your customer, appear as they expect". .NET is good but not the world of entreprenours. (C++ is even better and worse). Mail, twitter, IM, UC, "Video", BLOB, EDI (still still still). This is what Exchange should manage, Outlook starts to be a liability (I love it but a progress inhibitor never the less). give us the Glue we need, and provide us the power to use it and we will glue.
Well, I don't see a risk of MS stealing our applications, however I wonder how the business model is intended to work for us partners? We are heading towards the cloud and trying to figure out our dev/customization business model on top of Exchange in it's current form by this survey makes me questioning their direction. All the power they have, all the opportunities and they continue to slip. Guys, the world is changing, me and my generation of "do it right from the start" are dying. Up and run, get the dough, adapt to reality. "Information at your finger tip" => "follow Your customer, appear as they expect". .NET is good but not the world of entreprenours. (C++ is even better and worse). Mail, twitter, IM, UC, "Video", BLOB, EDI (still still still). This is what Exchange should manage, Outlook starts to be a liability (I love it but a progress inhibitor never the less). give us the Glue we need, and provide us the power to use it and we will glue.