Today, as part of his column on The Microsoft Search Tar Pit, John Dvorak criticizes the attitude at Oracle and Sun that “shrink wrap software is dead”. Dvorak points out that shrink wrap software has been around for at least 30 years, and the attitude of Oracle and Sun seems to be tied to the fact that they don’t sell shrink wrap software. This seems to boil down to a kind of technological myopia on their part.

Now, the thing I find interesting about this is, a few months ago, I heard Dvorak and Leo Laporte say on Leo’s “This Week In Tech” show that most people use Firefox, not IE. The basis of that comment was that they and everyone they know use Firefox. This is just so much more technological myopia. Now, it could very well be that the vast majority of techy-types use Firefox over IE, but that is certainly not the case in the real world, where most people are quite happy sticking with the browser that came with their PC.

5/9/2006 10:46:07 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)      Comments [0]  technology
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