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Original Post: Back to time to market?
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Clarence Westberg thinks that the Web Services game may be bringing the value of Javs down:
"Microsoft couldn't have executed a better divide-and-conquer war plan than the one that's being handed to it on a silver platter." David Berlind writes that in a future dominated by vendor-independent web services standards, the divisive Sun-dominated Java world is a ball and chain around IBM, keeping it from otherwise competing with unencumbered Microsoft. [Source: ZDNet]
His main point is that the spread of web services brings to phones what the spread of web apps was supposed to do on pc's - make the resident OS less important, and the remote one more so. This may play out better on phones than it does on PC's:
For instance, "As cell phones and PDAs become commodities, the value of device-resident software (such as operating systems, games, and other programs that run within the devices) will approach zero. Few people will pay more for a Java-based phone than for one that isn't. But the value of extra-cost and remotely hosted services for those devices will continue to increase. These services include mobile e-commerce (m-commerce), instant messaging (IM), location-based services (LBS) such as advertising-driven restaurant finders, and many others."
If that's the case, then time to market will start to matter more - and anything that allows you to build web services aware applications quickly will be useful. We (Cincom Smalltalk) have already started supporting smaller devices - and we've got good web services support. This may well be an opportunity for non-Java and non-MS solutions to get looked at
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