Sunday, December 04, 2005

Software platform versus ecosystem

A slight change in terminology is brewing as a result of "Web 2.0" web-enabled software paradigm. It used to be (and still is) that we'd call a software running on a "platform". It may be more appropriate to now call, not the OS, but the environment that all of our future software is running on and kept as an "Ecosystem" or "Eco-System."

"While 'platform' and 'eco-system' are both reasonably apt metaphors for the abstract world of software, the latter term better describes the open, networked world that encompasses a variety of computing architectures."

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