I’ve been pondering the idea of desktop applications authored as mashups. the question becomes - what is the development environment ? You can run PHP, Perl, and other languages on a local machine but they really were not meant for that.  You could install Apache and Tomcat and have an HTML and applet environment [...]

I’m old enough to remember when Microsoft was not the only player in the word-processing / spreadsheet / presentation market. I’ll admit that there are alternatives out there like OpenOffice.org but when you look at shear numbers, it’s Microsoft. The old time competition from Lotus and Borland and Harvard, is just a footnote in [...]