Vendors have struggled for years to sell thin-client, interactive user interface (UI) technology. These rich Internet applications (RIA) solutions rarely caught on with organizations despite the drawbacks of standard Web interfaces and client-server solutions, such as constant page loads and the high cost of deploying and maintaining thick client applications.Even though RIA offerings appeared compelling in terms of increased interactivity and lower costs, organizations largely ignored them. Why? Because the RIA market was a confusing...

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Posted by TomR at 08:11 AM | Permalink

Google and Apple Computer are currently the only two technology companies that can generate global buzz when they simply announce an announcement. And particularly when the announcements are shrouded in mystery, the media, the bloggers, and the individual posters on business and tech sites run rampant with speculation.Yesterday's Google and Sun Microsystems announcement had all the makings of a seminal moment in the IT industry — what former Intel CEO Andy Grove calls an inflection...

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During the Internet boom, there were a variety of software vendors — many now gone, such as Curl and Altio — touting a technology known variously as Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), X Internet applications, and Web apps; New Rowley calls these solutions UI apps. The goal was to replace server-generated Web pages — pages, such as shopping carts, that require a roundtrip to the server for any update — with interactive, desktop-like software. A large...

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