The Java Standard (and Competing Technology Standards)

Lecture Description

Winblad explains that companies use both a .net and a Java standard and neither has taken over. Most likely, neither will. Customers like to have a blend of technologies and programmers like to be looking at the new latest thing so there is currently no force to change to a single standard.

Course Index

1. Introduction to Hummer Winblad and Mobius Venture Capital
2. Drivers for Software Innovation
3. How Consumer Markets and Enterprise Markets Drive the Software Industry
4. 2004: Start of an Era of Optimism
5. Trends in Seed and Series A Investing
6. Hummer Winblad's and Softbank's Recent Investments
7. VC Words of Wisdom for Entrepreneurs
8. Keep Testing Your Core Assumptions
9. Outsourcing Software Development to Asia
10. Customers are Key
11. The Economic Context in 2004
12. The Java Standard (and Competing Technology Standards)
13. The Threat of Linux to Microsoft
14. Are Technologies Ahead of Their Time?