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Facts, Thoughts, and Opinions About Web Development and Business Strategy
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In what is becoming an entire season of Melrose Place, Yahoo is reaching out to
Microsoft to get a deal done. Basically, there is some internal sparring at
Yahoo at the moment, which is playing right in to Microsoft hands. In addition,
Yahoo seems like they are finally ready to get out of Internet land. The folks
in Open Source land may take a blow.
If a deal goes down, there will be many facets of the company that are split,
eliminated, or sold off. For an in-depth look at the complexity of a merger,
check out
Microsoft-Yahoo: What Will Stay And What Will Go? by Duncan Riley
from last February when both sides failed to agree on a price.
Yahoo is heavily behind Open Source development, something that is "not so much" in
Microsoft circles nor supported by Microsoft. If Microsoft lands Yahoo, Open Source
will lose it's biggest backer. Many of the Yahoo development tools offer coding
support for the largest Open Source development language - PHP. You won't see
Microsoft supporting their tools with PHP. Where and what becomes of things like
Yahoo Maps is uncertain. Microsoft will certainly offer their mapping
technology - Live Maps.
With so many people using languages such as PHP to develop apps with Yahoo's tools,
it has kept PHP and the Open Source platform alive and kicking through the years.
Losing a giant like Yahoo will come at a blow not to mention that the Yahoo Website
will be replaced with tools that are, and will be, integrated exclusively with Microsoft
.NET.
One big question mark will be the future of Yahoo Maps. Yahoo has some pretty
hefty contracts with
NAVTECH and
TeleAtlas who they lease the mapping data from
that powers their mapping tools. It is unlikely Microsoft will want to take on those
contracts. God knows if another not-so-well-known company out there would be
willing to take over Yahoos mapping technology with that much overhead.
Microsoft may be in a position to finally get more in to the Internet game and
expand on the popularity of not only their competing tools, but development on
the .NET Framework as well. Microsoft have made .NET the most used development
technology for Websites but PHP has always been able to hang on. You gotta believe
this is going to hurt if the two sides can work out a deal.
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