Antonio Cangiano blogged a response to a claim that Desktop Apps are dead: Desktop Applications are not dead!
This is going to spark a hot debate it seems.
Here’s my take on it: as a µISV, I don’t care much about the underlaying technology of my customers. Why? Because I’m never able to know who is going to buy my software and what environment they will run the app in. Also, because I have many small customers, instead of e few large ones, their technology choices are even more diverse.
So what do I do? I work with web based apps. This way, I only have to make sure that the software I make will run on one (virtual) machine, over which I have complete control.
The only thing I have to worry about, is the several browser flavors out there. But I find that it’s not that big an issue.
So how do you feel? Are Desktop Applications dead or not?
August 10, 2007 at 12:35
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