Last weeks were cloudy. Microsoft announced a Windows Cloud OS. Amazon announced that Windows will be supported in their Elastic Cloud. The blogosphere was full of comments on the brilliant talk of Larry Ellison at Oracle Expo where he stated that...
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Social software: inside our outside the firewall?
At Capgemini we are experimenting a lot with social software and one of the big discussions we have internally is whether it should be inside our outside the firewall. The main product that is causing this discussion now is what we consider as micro...
Read moreSaaS for the masses
As I wrote before, the distinction between a desktop application and a web application has become a fuzzy blur, and it is widening too. Desktop applications, traditionally belonging to the offline zone, go online to, for example, allowing you to...
Read moreHypertext Markup Love 5
I think it was at least 10 years ago that I bought a book concerning HTML. The thing I remember most of this little book was that is contained a warning concerning the use frames in websites. Not a warning that you are probably completely clueless...
Read moreFiddling about in The Platform, part I: "browser anatomy"
As a little boy, I was already fascinated with "how things work" and "what things are made of". Screwdrivers were kept where I couldn't reach them, because I wanted to have a look inside anything electrical. I guess geeky-ness is something you are...
Read moreThe browser wars are on again! Boo yah!
“Keep Internet Explorer 8 from adding any sites you visit to Browsing History with InPrivate Browsing. Now you can shop for that special gift with confidence knowing your family won't accidentally find out.” While Microsoft is preparing to put...
Read moreWorld domination is near
Everyone has a rather strong opinion on the monopoly Microsoft has/ had on the desktop. Microsoft is seen by some users as a bad company because of its monopoly, leaving the desktop user no other chance than using functionalities than windows...
Read moreAbout coffee blends and the platform the web is
Over the last 5 years or so, web applications have shifted from a stateless, page oriented set-up to a statefull set-up where the concept of page has been completely banished. When it comes to the ways in which a user can interact with them, modern...
Read moreThe World is Free
There are a couple of books that everyone should’ve read in his life and I think that Thomas Friedman’s “the World is Flat” is one of them. Anti-globalists might disagree with his “globalization is great” story, but you cannot deny that...
Read moreGoodbye Flash, Silverlight, AIR and other plug-ins
Techniques that require a plug-in in the browser are dying. However Silverlight is not the one dying, since it was already dead just before it started (why even try to penetrate a market with a product that is not finished and with a competitor that...
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