"Applistructure"? Give me a break
Lately I just keep falling over this word. (See here, here, and here, and here).
Perhaps I’m having a bad day, but this is really starting to get on my nerves.
Applistructure? Applistructure?
Customer: I’d like some applistructure, please!
Vendor: Certainly, sir. How much would you like?
My 2p: forget applistructure. In fact, forget applications too.
It’s all infrastructure.
One person’s application is another man’s infrastructure. Web servers are applications to an operating system. SMTP is an application layer protocol to a network engineer. And “applications”? They’re business infrastructure. (Think about that last one).
It’s all infrastructure to someone.
Posted by admin on October 28, 2005
i have even seen at least one spat about who actually created this ludicrous term – AMR or somebody. i am with you though mate – can we take it out back and shoot it?
i have even seen at least one spat about who actually created this ludicrous term – AMR or somebody. i am with you though mate – can we take it out back and shoot it?
“Applications” should be shot as well, particularly as mobile companies still think there are only three – voice, data and now video. Applications are no more or less than collections of fucntionality to meet a business need. Ideally the coupling sould be loose, sadly in general it is not – yet.
“Applications” should be shot as well, particularly as mobile companies still think there are only three – voice, data and now video. Applications are no more or less than collections of fucntionality to meet a business need. Ideally the coupling sould be loose, sadly in general it is not – yet.
Great to see some support for this chaps. (BTW James, I heard it was JP Morgan (see this Shai Agassi blog entry)… kind of what we’ve come to expect from these Investment Analysts eh?
And Jon, I agree with you too. As I said, it’s all relative. James, you’re the expert – how do we start a “kill applistructure” meme? ;-)
Great to see some support for this chaps. (BTW James, I heard it was JP Morgan (see this Shai Agassi blog entry)… kind of what we’ve come to expect from these Investment Analysts eh?
And Jon, I agree with you too. As I said, it’s all relative. James, you’re the expert – how do we start a “kill applistructure” meme? ;-)
You could write it’s obituary and send it to the Computing Press for publication ……….
You could write it’s obituary and send it to the Computing Press for publication ……….