Achieving Vendor Lock-In Through Open Source
There seems to be a renewed interest from proprietary software vendors in the use open source to create vendor lock in. This week, add Microsoft’s Silverl...
Tag: Browsers
Slingshot – lightweight apollo?
Today Joyent announced the public release of Slingshot, a framework for (their words) obliterating the distinction between the web and the desktop. Slingshot le...
Open Source Flex (MPL)
<Update> It’s worth taking a look at Ed Burnette’s take on this at ZDNet: “Adobe keeps Flash, Flex close to the vest.” Although I ...
Web Apps with Offline Mode – Dojo Offline Toolkit
Reading Dion Almaer’s “Web 2. 0 Expo Was Poor?” (I couldn’t be there due to client commitments so I can’t comment myself) I notice...
Zimbra Desktop?
I ‘ve blogged thought I had blogged before here about Zimbra and their demos of “desktop” or “disconnected” functionality. Today, ...