Jon Collins is a principal analyst with the industry analyst firm Quocirca. Rather than focusing too closely on individual technologies or functions, Jon's perspective is on how they fit together to deliver an Information Technology (IT) platform that can serve the business efficiently and effectively. Jon has spent the past 17 years working in IT, as a programmer, IT manager, business analyst, security expert, and software development consultant in the finance, telecommunications, and public sectors. He uses this breadth of experience to determine how technologies can be used in practice, and to discern what issues will be faced by developers, managers, and operators when it comes to their design, development, and deployment.
In the first years following the millennium, the future appeared bright
indeed for mobile technologies. As the sun started to set on e-commerce,
venture capitalists and investors turned to what they saw as the wireless
wave, driven by the newly established infrastructure for the General Packet
Radio Service (GPRS) (which essentially extended the Internet onto mobile
devices), the exponential growth of Simple Messaging Service (SMS), and the
Europe-wide frenzy over the "broadband" wireless protocols such as 3G. Many
companies started promoting applications that exploited the Wireless
Application Protocol (WAP) and its multidecked presentation format, Wireless
Markup Language (WML). Sun's Bill Joy talked about swarms of devices
interacting using Java and Jini, and location-sensitive services looked set
to take center stage with the promise of using cell phones as cred... (more)
Jon Collins is a principal analyst with the industry analyst firm Quocirca. Rather than focusing too closely on individual technologies or functions, Jon's perspective is on how they fit together to deliver an Information Technology (IT) platform that can serve the business efficiently and effectively. Jon has spent the past 17 years working in IT, as a programmer, IT manager, business analyst, security expert, and software development consultant in the finance, telecommunications, and public sectors. He uses this breadth of experience to determine how technologies can be used in practice, and to discern what issues will be faced by developers, managers, and operators when it comes to their design, development, and deployment.
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