A New "Platform Wars" White Paper

What's happening to the Web?

The Web is replacing the PC as the place where we communicate, work and play. With Microsoft's previously impregnable empire under threat, an epic battle is underway over who will control this new platform. Managers need to understand the dynamics of this battle if they are to make the right choices when developing web-based business applications. 

How did the Web start to replace the PC as the platform on which applications are run? What technologies make this possible? What is a Rich Internet Application (RIA)? Which companies are now threatening the hegemony that Microsoft has established over the past 25 years?

What does this mean for anyone developing applications today, particularly if they're considering making the application run in a Web browser? Where does today's new generation of mobile devices fit, and does it have an influence?

In this new Caplin white paper, (request your full copy) Paul Caplin discusses all of these issues and more. He considers the likely outcome of the battle for control of the new platform and identifies key factors that anyone making medium to long term decisions about browser-based application technologies should consider.

This is the first of two related whitepapers, the second of which will be entitled "Which Web?" This will consider each of the candidate RIA technologies and identify the circumstances, situations and requirements for which each may be suitable, and draw some conclusions on which RIA technology to select, when and why.

Get your own copy

To obtain your own copy of this white paper please contact us here. We will then also send you the "Which Web?" whitepaper as soon as it's published.