Jaime García Cantero [analista de IDC] añade en esta línea que 'el modelo de software y aplicaciones en red está muy ligado a este tipo de terminales, y Chrome, el navegador de Google recientemente presentado, está claramente en esta línea puesto que podría considerarse una plataforma de aplicaciones en red o incluso un sistema operativo de internet'. Sigue leyendo...

Rich animations without plug-ins. The canvas element gives the browser the ability to draw vector graphics. This means configurable, automatic graphs and illustrations right in the browser without Flash or Silverlight. Some support for canvas is already in all the latest browsers except for IE. Sigue leyendo...

This is not just a browser: it is a vehicle for delivering web applications, and it significantly changes the balance of power between those trying to build modern client platforms. It is time to abandon the term Rich Internet Applications, or RIAs, as if this were a distinct category that is not quite mainstream. Sigue leyendo...

The good news for startups is that the answer seems to be no, Amazon is not unique in their success of their APIs. Certainly eBay has achieved a large measure of success with its open APIs, with over 60K registered developers and a large amount of API use. Salesforce too has been relatively successful with their open platform, and Google has as well with it's increasingly robust set of API offerings. Sigue leyendo...

El precio día de un consultor en el norte de Europa es aproximadamente dos veces el de España, pero el salario es sólo 1,5 veces el de aquí. El problema en este caso está, más que en los salarios, en que no ha habido una subida de tarifas en el mercado debido a la fuerte competencia por el número excesivo de consultoras. Sigue leyendo...

The defining characteristic of any RIA is that it has a stateful client that is (or should be) platform and browser independent. With the advent of new RIA platforms like Flex, GWT, and OpenLaszlo, developers now have all the reach of a traditional thin-client web application with many of the useful characteristics of thick-client applications, such as the ability to maintain state on the client. Sigue leyendo...

Craig Mundie, jefe de investigación y estrategia de la empresa, afirma que Microsoft se está preparando para un mundo más amplio de informática en nubes y máquinas "clientes", no sólo ordenadores personales sino también teléfonos móviles, coches, videoconsolas y televisores, todos con soporte lógico de Microsoft. Sigue leyendo...

More important than the prospect of enhancing the power of spreadsheets themselves is that almost nobody has managed to make them a more effective part of the customization/configuration experience for enterprise software. Sigue leyendo...

But a dominant position has already been established by the one vendor no one mentions in the surveys, mostly because that vendor’s products are so ubiquitous. The vendor is Microsoft, the product Excel… Sigue leyendo...

Oracle’s new pricing is a bold, even outrageous, move by a gutsy company. At the same time, SAP’s increase ups the ante on the “maintenance tax” it charges customers. Sigue leyendo...