The Devil's Guide to iT™ » IBM http://devilsguidetoit.com making iT simpler Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:10:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 paying the price of multiplication http://devilsguidetoit.com/index.php/paying-the-price-of-multiplication/ http://devilsguidetoit.com/index.php/paying-the-price-of-multiplication/#comments Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:45:25 +0000 oldnick http://devilsguidetoit.com/?p=6169 The software developers’ dream of “write once, run anywhere” is getting ever harder to achieve, instead of simpler. Because key hardware and software manufacturers are increasingly reverting to the prehistoric, proprietary mentality of a bygone age that blatantly disregards the interests of their The software developers’ dream of “write once, run anywhere” is getting ever harder to achieve, instead of simpler. Because key hardware and software manufacturers are increasingly reverting to the prehistoric, proprietary mentality of a bygone age that blatantly disregards the interests of their in the iT value chain. Leaving everyone with a stark choice: pay the additional and of developing software, or constrain the usability of business applications? If anyone tells you that their software will run on anything, they either have very deep pockets, or very shallow product. :twisted:

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