See you at Source O2's next event for developers
O2's developer program has come on leaps and bounds and seems to have distinct advantages over their competitors - well, at least there is some meaty(ish) technical blurb to get your teeth into and some real stuff to play with (apparently) like the location API. Contrast this with Vodafone's Via program which is a work-in-progress with nothing at all useful to glean from their website.
Operators still have a long way to go to sort out their developer programs. In my view, by and large they just don't "get it". I mean, put any one of their develop meetings alongside one of the programs running out of IT shops, O'Reilly, Microsoft, Sun etc. and you'll see what I mean. I'm sure most of you already know what I mean. I remember being at an Orange ODF event the same day that Sun were running their event for JXTA (peer-to-peer) stuff. Whilst we were politely sipping hotel coffee (over-brewed as usual) they were playing with Sharp Taurus/WiFi bundles, developing on-the-fly at the show and hunting for "treasure" via pseudo-LBS zoning cast over the different conference rooms. I know where I would rather have been. [Talking of LBS via WiFi, a friend just emailed me about Application Media who are doing interesting stuff with portals based on your biz travel plans - just like we did with Zingo at Lucent back in 1998.]
Glancing Source O2's site, they are pushing a couple of interesting 3rd party solutions. One is Broadbeam, basically a software messaging backbone for wireless. This should be contrasted with SoftWired's Wireless JMS solution I posted earlier. The other is Glue, a service-delivery platform that supposedly accelerates web service deployments. O2 are using it for their location platform. The Mind Electric, makers of Glue, market it as delivering ''the Power of Java, the Simplicity of .NET'' to Enterprise Software Development.
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