Comments on The Wisdom of Clouds: Intuit Makes Play for Finances In The Cloud

It is rather interesting for me to read that blog....

2009-11-20T03:38:05.292-08:00

It is rather interesting for me to read that blog. Thanks for it. I like such themes and anything connected to this matter. I definitely want to read more on that blog soon.

I think that Intuit might have a difficult time co...

2008-04-29T06:05:00.000-07:00

I think that Intuit might have a difficult time competing in the cloud computing space with salesforce (a company that has been hosting and running applications for years).

"if no one else uses Flex (except maybe Adobe) ...

2008-04-19T01:07:00.000-07:00
"if no one else uses Flex (except maybe Adobe) and you are using Intuit's libraries, the code is locked in...at least until Intuit either open sources or licenses its platform components to other capacity providers"

Absolutely spot on. When will these people learn? Intuit doesn't have the same developer buzz as Google, so it is less likely to build an ecosystem based upon an open SDK of their product.

They should have boldly moved towards open sourcing the entire stack. This half hearted approach is more likely to become a footnote in history.