Satya Nadella - Running the Dynamics Team | scobleizer

AdityaG
OMG VISTA FTW LOLZ!!1one

uhh.. is that steve jobs? Wink

pringles
sup?

This Microsoft Dynamics thing scares me. If my clients knew about this application family, I'd be out of a job. From the demos on the Dynamics site, this thing does everything any business manager would ever need and more. What does that leave me? Why would somone wait 2 months for me to build them an application when they could just buy one that's built by the best of the best and have it running in a day or so?

OK, so I don't really have clients yet. But that's my dream; starting a business that builds line of business applications for my clients. And my biggest selling point was gonna be that I am going to become an MCSE, an MCSD and an MCDBA. How am I going to do that when Microsoft itself has something that I couldn't do in my lifetime?

I dunno. It just makes me think I don't have a chance.

Jasp
This is me looking happy

pringles wrote:

I dunno. It just makes me think I don't have a chance.

Nobody has a chance with Microsoft around. We are all DOOOOOMED Wink

AdityaG
OMG VISTA FTW LOLZ!!1one

pringles wrote:
This Microsoft Dynamics thing scares me. If my clients knew about this application family, I'd be out of a job. From the demos on the Dynamics site, this thing does everything any business manager would ever need and more. What does that leave me? Why would somone wait 2 months for me to build them an application when they could just buy one that's built by the best of the best and have it running in a day or so?

OK, so I don't really have clients yet. But that's my dream; starting a business that builds line of business applications for my clients. And my biggest selling point was gonna be that I am going to become an MCSE, an MCSD and an MCDBA. How am I going to do that when Microsoft itself has something that I couldn't do in my lifetime?

I dunno. It just makes me think I don't have a chance.

Business applications aren't really a new thing. If you are trying to build a start-up, then you should probably look at more innovative ideas or atleast expect this sort of big competition...

ZippyV
Fired Up

pringles wrote:
This Microsoft Dynamics thing scares me. If my clients knew about this application family, I'd be out of a job.

OK, so I don't really have clients yet. But that's my dream; starting a business that builds line of business applications for my clients. And my biggest selling point was gonna be that I am going to become an MCSE, an MCSD and an MCDBA. How am I going to do that when Microsoft itself has something that I couldn't do in my lifetime?

I dunno. It just makes me think I don't have a chance.

Crybaby.

Learn about the Dynamics products and learn how to implement them in a company. You could give training to the people who have to use it. Write applications to extend the product. Try to convert businesses who already use old line-of-business applications.
Microsoft gave you an application with a solid base to build upon. Otherwise you would have to it over and over again.

Good luck with getting an MCSE, MCSD and an MCDBA certification. You obviously have to much money. Even with ms Dynamics you can still get a job with these certificates.

pringles
sup?

i don't have too much money. i'm nickel and dime-ing it as it is. that's why i'm so frustrated. i have all these ideas, and no way to implement them.

asqui

pringles: Have you considered going straigt to the source and just woring on the Dynamics team at Microsoft? Big Smile

ara3n

It'll be about 4-5 years before you will see Dynamics final product, till then you'll have all the old products that they aquired, Just becuase they renamed them doesn't mean a thing. Also knowing MS the first product they'll release will be a beta. So until then if you build a simple soultion that is easily customizable, you will be way a head of MS.
Also I hope MS learns from the 5 products history and builds something better.
All I see right now is that they have MS CRM, separate product in .NET. They build workflow tools, that is a sepparate product, AX, NAV, GP, SL, all separate products and separate technology, and separate languages. And MSOffice has to be in there as well.
From what I think they are doing, they are writing a new .NET product from ground up and allowing all the current products to upgrade to it.
And guess what this new product will be like?

MikeSan

I guess the big elephant in the room, and the question that Robert should have asked is this... Microsoft owns 4 ERP packages, and the goal is to consolidate and unify them. If these applications are so good, why is Microsoft one of SAP's biggest customers?