dreydoc- Holy cow. What I take away from the article is how important it remains for ICA to remain delivery agnostic! CTXS needs to get ICA on everything that connects to anything. This appears to be their plan. And now they appear to be working developer tools into the game via Vertigo.
Here's what I consider to be lessons CTXS appears to already know:
Jini was ahead of its time. But they also note that technical, marketing and licensing problems all have contributed to the lack of a healthy developer community not just for Jini, but also for Java itself....
Microsoft made the operating system the platform of choice because it had more apps, and apps win. More apps turns into usability, and that's what needs to happen here...
"The cell-phone manufacturers are looking at KJava and PersonalJava to create compelling user experiences, and they want that application community, so they're trying to create their own," says Espial marketing director Mal Raddalgoda. Instead of getting[or using/leveraging] the phenomenon of Windows where you have one API, each of the adopters is trying to court a few developers and is fragmenting a shared resource..."
Well, well it gets more interesting all the time. Once we get more information on Vertigo, it'll be interesting to compare it to our speculations here. I have to say, trying to understand the above, makes understanding TCO and ASP a piece of cake.<g> -MikeM(From Florida) |
