With hours left to find out Yahoo’s decision on the matter, pundits are giving their last minute comments on the bid. Two interesting ones come from John Gruber and Erick Schonfeld. John talks mostly on how not to screw Yahoo up after the merger amd compares them with Apple circa 1996, while Erick focuses on the general search strategy.
John on their tools:
Let Yahoo continue to choose and create their own server and software development tools. Yahoo knows as much about high-capacity web scaling as any company in the world. That they’ve built their architecture around Linux, BSD, Apache, MySQL, and PHP — not a whiff of Microsoft technology — is a strength, not a weakness. Allowing Yahoo to keep this architecture isn’t just essential in terms of keeping existing Yahoo engineers happy, it would also greatly expand Microsoft’s overall corporate expertise.
Erick on search:
The only way to fight Google is to use its own weapons against it. Google enters new markets by embracing open standards in areas where it does not currently compete. But when it comes to search and advertising (how it makes money), it is a black box. If Yahoo were to truly open up search, it could rally the efforts of hundreds of thousands of outside developers to take on Google on a hundred thousand different fronts.
I do encourage you to read both articles since they do have a lot of good ideas.
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