Virtualization has fostered a new generation of cloud services, enabling organizations to run a wide range of applications in the cloud. However, the value of cloud services will only be fully realized when organizations can take their existing application workloads, easily deploy them on standards-based cloud infrastructure and benefit from the increased scalability and lower costs of a utility model. DavidRon wrote: You give Apple too much credit. Handmark had an app store for Palm devices nearly a decade before Apple, and years before the iPhone even existed. Certainly, Apple got the idea from the Palm platform. Additionally, since this is being posted in the Java Developer's Journal, you should give credit to GetJar which was around 1/2 a decade before the Apple application store.
Additionally, application stores have existed on non-mobile platforms for years as well such as Debian's synaptic....
Mar. 10, 2010 12:22 PM EST
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