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: Development
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...
Rich Internet Applications and Greek Mythology
Ever since I first starting hearing about Adobe Apollo, I had a feeling there was more to the name than was apparent. or ? Adobe wants you to believe that the n...