List/Grid Tag Archives: graphs
Microsoft’s woes: It’s a Windows-eat-Windows world
Pardon the wordplay on “dog-eat-dog world,” but as you’ll see it applies perfectly to what is going on with Windows in the desktop OS space. Because there are several interesting things going on.
REST in peace, SOAP
Looks like the tide of the web API protocol war (if there ever was one) has shifted firmly in REST ’s favor while SOAP has been forced back. Web developers have cast their votes, they want RESTful APIs. Here is the distribution of the different API protocols and styles, comparing the situation in 2008 versus that of 2010, based on ProgrammableWeb ’s directory of more than 2,000 web APIs.
The consistent failure of Linux to grab even 1% of the desktop OS market
Linux has been around for almost two decades now. It has become a resounding success as a server OS (for example as the L in the famous LAMP stack), and more recently as a mobile OS (Android). But what about on the desktop
