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Ancora su Yahooooooooows

Interessante osservazione dal blog di BEA. In sintesi Microsoft vuole Yahoo perchè si rende conto che il mondo applicativo va verso applicazioni basate WEB Services e SaaS, e la sua lidership, basata sulle applicazioni off-line, è in pericolo.

Microsoft è ancora leader nell’off-line – sono suoi 9 computer su 10 al mondo – ma non è mai entrata in partita nell’online, a differenza – ad esempio – della rivale Apple. Basterà un investimento di 44,6 milardi di dollari (pari agli utili dei prossimi 3 anni) per ribaltare un trend strutturale? E’ questa la sfida più impegnativa per il Ceo di Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, dopo l’uscita del fondatore Bill Gates. In palio c’è la leadership del settore per i prossimi anni. [From Microsoft guarda ad Yahoo ma il vero obiettivo è la pubblicità on-line]

Undergrad Geeks in Montréal

A Montreal si è tenuta "Canadian Undergraduate Software Engineering Conference"

They come in by bus, they camp four to a hotel room, they swill beer, they cheer wildly and laugh raucously at the slightest provocation. Gotta love it. [From Undergrad Geeks in Montréal]

Vi consiglio di dare un occhiata al post... a volte vorrei essere adolescente adesso...

CUSEC 2008: making it fun! via kwout

I sistemi operativi più usati per accedere a Interet

Riporto i risultati di utilizzo dei sistemi operativi per accedere ad Iternet secondo le statistiche di Market Share aggiornato al 31 dicenbre 2007.

Operating System Total Market Share
Windows 91.79%
Mac 7.31%
Linux 0.63%
iPhone 0.12%
Playstation 0.03%
SunOS 0.01%
Nintendo Wii 0.01%
NetBSD 0.00%
HP-UX 0.00%
AIX 0.00%
FreeBSD 0.00%
SCP 0.00%
SCO 0.00%
OpenBSD 0.00%
OpenVMS 0.00%

La cosa più interessante è lo share già raggiunto da iPhone (che poi è comunque OSX) che ha gia superato quello di Windows CE...
Senza parlare dell'uso di PS e WII come sistemi connessi a Web Services.

Link: Market share for browsers, operating systems and search engines.

Market share for browsers, operating systems and search engines via kwout

Sarà il 2008 l'anno della "Unified Communication"?

Nel mare magnum delle previsioni per l'anno nuovo segnalo (per il momento) queste pubblicate dal .NET Developers' Journal.

Where's AJAX, SOA and Virtualization Headed in 2008? — 2007 was the undoubtedly the year of Social Networking, but what of 2008? Will '08 be the year of 'Unified Communications' or the year when CMS comes to stand for 'Community Management System' - or even 'Collaboration Management System'? Or will it be the year of a giga-merger, to beat the mere mega-mergers of 2007? As usual at the end of each year, SYS-CON has been informally polling its globe-girdling network of software developers, industry executives, commentators, investors, writers, and editors. As always, the range and depth of their answers is fascinating, throwing light not just on where the industry is going but also how it's going to get there, why, because of who, within what kind of time-scale. Enjoy!

Vi evidenzio tra i punti quasi tutti di interesse i seguenti:

Disparity between bandwidth haves and have-nots will grow. Net neutrality will take an even worse beating in 2008 than 2007.
JOSHUA ALLEN
Microsoft Senior Evangelist

There will be massive, newsworthy, churn in the social-networking space, as Facebook creaks under the strain of its own size and growth, and nimbler competitors find chinks in its armor.
TIM BRAY
Director of Web Technologies, Sun

Anything can be a web service.
Everything is a business process.
DR ADAM KOLAWA
CEO & Co-Founder, Parasoft

The next quantum leap in computing will be in the area of annotating information with additional meaning, i.e. semantics. Tim Berners-Lee saw this in 1999 when he wrote about The Semantic Web. The idea is that if you augment data with additional information that allows a computer to determine what it actually means, you will be able to do more with that data, and be able to take more human processing out of the loop.
BILL ROTH
Vice-President, BEA

Social networking bubble will burst. Hopefully this will thin the herd and get rid of the annoying Web 2.0 detritus clogging the way for the real innovators.
KEVIN HOFFMAN
Editor-in-Chief, iPhone Developer's Journal

Software development will change to a wider use of code generators. Forget about heavy frameworks, regardless of what programming language you use. In a simple case, use some XML style sheets combined with the metadata that describes your application objects to automatically generate the code for these objects. On a larger scale, the entire application may be described using metadata and XML, and an appropriate code generator will do the job. So programming will change from writing tedious code that requires lots of coders to describing the metadata and writing custom code generators.
YAKOV FAIN
Editor-in-chief of Flex Developer's Journal