Bruce Scott

Today's mobile Internet economy has opened the door to a range of new technologies that challenge traditional views of programming. In particular, new devices are cropping up every day to meet the needs of both business and home users who regularly conduct business via laptops, PDAs and diverse Internet appliances. Visionaries and savvy product developers are also hitting the market constantly with new ways to package functionality into highly focused devices such as Web/cable set-top boxes or even car navigation systems - and telecommunications hubs and switches. One of the most conspicuous characteristics of these small devices is how restricted in size they are compared to conventional servers and desktop PCs. Yet despite their size limitations, they must still fit a huge amount of functionality into a very small space, running the same types of applications and ... (more)

Java OOP Means OODBMS - "Not

There are many reasons for Java's success. Although heavily debated and discussed, the "Write Once Run Anywhere" aspect of Java is one of the reasons. A sometimes less-heralded reason is Java's superior object-oriented implementation. I don't view myself as an OO expert, but I've observed the rapid market acceptance of Java as compared to other OO languages. In the past these languages took many years to enter the mainstream (C++) or remained in a niche market (SmallTalk). The creators of Java were able to stand on the shoulders of others that had created OO languages; they were ... (more)

Anonymous Deployment vs. Portability

A lot has been said and written about Java's "write once, run anywhere" (WORA) capability. There have been both supporters and detractors (e.g., "write once, debug anywhere"). Java's statement of WORA raised expectations about Java to the highest possible level and Java is often measured against these expectations. The inventors of Java made the WORA claim based largely on Java's architecture, which includes both a technical and business architecture. The former includes such things as the Java Virtual Machine, Java bytecodes and standardized Java APIs. With the JVM, model applic... (more)

The New World Of Mobile Computing

By 2004, each corporate knowledge worker will have 3 to 4 different computing and information access devices that will be used to access various applications. -META Group In the new world of mobile computing, according to IDC, it's estimated that by the year 2004 there will be 40 million active computing devices, up from 11 million currently. The growth of other handheld devices, like mobile phones, will grow from 300 million devices to a billion by 2004. What is driving this anticipated growth? There are several factors: the increasing demand for information birthed with the lau... (more)

When the Internet Gets Really Big…

The Internet is amazing. In just six short years it has spawned thousands of new businesses and generated billions of dollars of wealth. Dot-com fever has captured the hearts of America's technologists and entered the lives of many Americans. In the midst of all of this, it's useful to look at where we've come from, where we are now and where we're going. Let's go back to the beginning of the PC era. In the early 1980s for the first time computers were small enough, cheap enough and simple enough to make their way to the desktops in homes and businesses. At home people used comp... (more)