Everybody’s appy nowadays
Filed Under (Industry Biz News) by Admin on 22-01-2010
The soon-to-be-disappeared Sun Microsystems had a knack for prescient slogans. “The network is the computer” has come true. And then there was “write once, run anywhere,” which heralded the age of universal software applications. Rather than tailoring their programs to run on a particular type of computer – an IBM mainframe, say, or a Windows PC – programmers would use a language like Sun’s Java that was adaptable to any computer. It was a liberating idea: Software developers and users would no longer be locked into one operating system, and beholden to the owner of that system. And it came…