Chapter 3. Microsoft's Portal Strategy
For several years, Microsoft has marched forward on the long journey from a desktop software company to a provider of enterprise solutions. Despite its dominance of desktop operating system and office productivity software, the company has had an uphill struggle to gain respect and market share in the enterprise software market. Microsoft has played the underdog to Oracle in the database market, the upstart to BEA in the enterprise application integration (EAI) market, and second fiddle to Sun and Unix in e-commerce and web servers. Only with the advent of .NET and the generation of server products that began after Windows 2000 Server has Microsoft boasted a comprehensive enterprise platform and serious ...
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