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Licensing Microsoft’s protocols will be expensive, and Microsoft seems only partially committed to interoperability and Open Source
Filed under: Google, Google Maps, interoperability, Microsoft | Tagged: Data Portability, DJIA, Dow Jones Industrial Average, European Union, Exchange Server 2007, Google, Google Maps API, Information Week, interoperability, Microsoft, open connections, SharePoint 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Google is wooing the developer as part of its overall strategy for fighting Microsoft’s hegemony on the desktop. A paradigm shift is coming as cloud computing, software as a service (SAAS) and open source, and Google is leading the revolution.
Filed under: Cloud Computing, Google, Microsoft, SAAS | Tagged: 3G, 4G, CodePlex, development tools, Google, Google Data APIs, Microsoft, Open Source, PowerBuilder, SAAS, Salesforce.com, software as a service, SyBase | 1 Comment »
It’s not, as Nicholas Carr claims, that Google is affecting our brains and making us stupid. It’s Carr who like the Luddites is feeling threatened by technology, an proposes that we read more and Google less to help his pocketbook.
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Google’s App Engine technology, which pushes computing to Google’s clouds, is vying with Adobe’s AIR technology, which favors heavier, fat clients run from the desktop, but richly interfacing with the Internet. Which view of the world will prevail?
Filed under: Adobe, Cloud Computing, Google, Google App Engine | Tagged: Adobe AIR, Adobe Flash, Cloud Computing, David Sarna, enterprise computing, fat client, Forbes, Google App Engine, thin client | 1 Comment »
Google is going after the Developer community. Google has greatly enhanced its free offerings for developers, including making Google Gears Open Source, releasing the Google Earth API, providing an enhanced Web Toolkit, hosting Cloud Computing applications on its server absolutely free, and making it much easier to develop high-powered web applications.
Filed under: Cloud Computing, Developer Tools, Google | Tagged: AJAX, Cloud Computing, Gears, Google Apps, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google earth, Google Gears, Google Health, Google Reader, Google Sites, Google Talk, Google Web Toolkit, IMAP, Java programming language, javascript | 4 Comments »
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