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Comment At a higher level, some provide a platform that contains rich functionality to make application development easier. The platform-as-a-service approach might sound tempting but you might wish you'd gone for an infrastructure-as-a-service option.
[09 May 2008]
Comment Absolutely not - at least not as the main platform driver in my organisation. Arriving at this point allows for effective planning and the true development of standards and best practice. Is the debate about open source finally over?
[06 May 2008]
Comment Last month, Apple released the long-awaited Software Development Kit (SDK) for the iPhone, finally satisfying the clamour from the worldwide developer community who see the device as a cash cow and an attractive, innovative platform to develop for.
[23 Apr 2008]
Round-Up The SDK allows developers to create applications for the formerly closed platform, so expect the usual mix of useful, productivity apps and complete and utter toot (see photos of the launch). While Apple had to assure some crazed developers that...
[14 Mar 2008]
Round-Up Meanwhile, Google's Android platform is also the talk of the town - or at least the talk of the mobile-obsessed people inside the conference centre. What Android is touting is the ability for third-party developers to create platform-neutral...
[15 Feb 2008]
Comment We've got to advance our platform. I think the core of who we are and what we do [is] believing in a platform. The third platform, which I don't think anybody would dispute will win in the long run, is directly downloading over the internet.
[08 Jan 2008]
Comment A bold gamble given that the success of the iTunes Store and iPod sales was built on the closed platform. Apple is clearly developing a common platform for all its hardware, although the version of OS X is clearly going to be different from that...
[21 Dec 2007]
Leader And the development of an iPlayer download service for non-XP users also seems to be far from a foregone conclusion, with the the corporation planning to look at the rates of adoption for the streaming service for XP and other platforms before...
[19 Oct 2007]
AS Analysis The platform behind this is one of the fastest and most resilient on the internet today, processing more than five million transactions per day and more than 300 bets every second, and the Agenda Setters judging panel acknowledged Betfair for...
[12 Oct 2007]
Comment VDRs are a place to collaborate and share information, They enable a number of Private Equity firms to work together to structure deals but do require a common platform to work with lawyers, to share documents leading up to the arrangement of the...
[20 Aug 2007]
Leader And as for compatibility, while the question about whether the iPlayer can become cross-platform is worth asking - since it has so far been developed just using Microsoft technology - it is clear the Corporation's independent governing body, the...
[31 Jul 2007]
CIO Profile Since then Lovell-Read has rebuilt trust in the IT function and aligned it more closely with the rest of the business, deploying a single SAP platform, moving to a common set of business processes, centralising and outsourcing the IT...
[06 Jun 2007]
CIO Profile Dew's role as CIO will be to ensure IT plays its part in meeting that goal by moving to a standardised global IT model, including a single global SAP platform. What they say about him: "Gets a buzz from 'not knowing', invests in his people and is a...
[06 Jun 2007]
Comment Known as the 'father of Java', James Gosling is still at Sun Microsystems working on software development tools and aligning the strategies for the language and platform he created more than a decade ago.silicon.com recently caught up with Gosling...
[19 Mar 2007]
Comment Despite touring the fluff, I spent some time talking mobile Linux with Trolltech, which recently launched its Greenphone - a project designed to foster application development on its mobile platform. Although ITU is still officially on on Friday...
[08 Dec 2006]
Comment Indeed, organisations require a standardised platform to work across their business, not just at a departmental level. Generally a BI platform architecture can be complex to build and inflexible to change as business processes change.
[01 Dec 2006]
Comment Did HP's handing over of complete design responsibility for the platform to Intel at the beginning of 2005 show its lack of commitment, or was it just a culmination of HP's move out of processor design to allow it to focus on platform development?
[06 Nov 2006]
Comment After all, TCO and return on investment (ROI) are less factors of the underlying operating system than the applications and services that support the server platform. This goal can be achieved by four means - through the development of software...
[11 Oct 2006]
AS Analysis He said: "Now you've got that platform, you have people in Turkey trading with people in the UK who are trading with people in Russia - forget China. Huawei continues to expand outside of its domestic market, setting up research and development and...
[25 Sep 2006]
AS Profile First and foremost this means taking open source seriously - and considering the development model not just for the Solaris platform but also perhaps for Java. Why? Breathing new life into Silicon Valley stalwart
[25 Sep 2006]
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