January 5th, 2010 | by akoelewijn | published in cloud, mobile, oss, web
Google used to be a search company making profit on adds. Today’s release of the Nexus One ’superphone’ illustrates that Google is turning into the next Microsoft: a supplier of software platforms and applications. The Nexus One isn’t a phone, it’s a device to access the web. It’s just another Operating System to use [...]
November 6th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in cloud, soa, web
Recently David Pogue suggested smartphones like the iPhone should be called app-phone instead. I think focussing on the apps is wrong. For me, the thing that the iPhone does better than most other phones is internet access. The iphone is a net-phone. It is your mobile internet terminal. But it’s more than that, it’s also [...]
August 11th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in cloud, java
VMWare just bought SpringSource. Looks to me like they are going to compete with Google Apps Engine: offer a java based cloud platform as a service.
This is probably good news for everybody who is using the free and open source versions of spring and grails. My thinking is that VMWare will use the free [...]
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