Thursday, June 19, 2003

The New Platforms The New Platforms ... Today, most of the innovative apps are breaking out on many different platforms. Server side business applications are mostly on Java, with a few on .Net. Appliances are all based on Linux - it's stable, has the tools, delivers the performance, and free is hard to beat when you're fighting for thin hardware margins. Microsoft is nowhere here. The amount of development and IP going into making Linux secure, fault-tolerant, high-performance, clustered, etc., is staggering. If anywhere near this effort went into developing a stable, documented, easy-to-use GUI for Linux, Microsoft would have a real problem on its hands. On the client side, the browser is still the first choice, although there is still quite a bit of Windows development going on - in particular the sheer amount of R&D going into file-sharing technologies is very bad news for any media dinosaurs trying to steer clear of the tar pits. Windows CE is seeing some work. Entrepreneurs continue to ignore historical data and try and develop apps and services around next gen mobile phones. Anyone who's spent significant time in East Asia seems to be convinced that mobile phones are the next PCs. If Solaris is still a viable development platform, it's certainly not obvious from here. Palm and Macintosh development are mostly done by smaller outfits, out of the sight of VCs. ISV support for the game consoles is obviously huge, but done through traditional game developers and publishers. Predictions - ... [VentureBlog] 6:44:25 AM  comment []       Speak No Evil Speak No Evil. You've seen my evil, now it's time for you to hear it! Loyd (a lurker) e-mailed me earlier this afternoon with a link to Dane. With their help, I've weaved the AT&T Natural Voices form into every blog entry, past and present. Just press the button that precedes each paragraph and you'll be in pitch-perfect paradise. This "feature" will only be available on the Web site for now, not in the RSS feed. Perhaps an enterprising JavaScript coder will come up with a way to automatically randomize the voice types on load (crystal, mike, rich, rosa, klara, reiner, alain, juliette, charles, and audrey).... [C:PIRILLO.EXE] 5:50:37 AM  comment []

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