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Software Development Trends 2012
Michael Swindell Senior Vice President of Marketing and Products
John Thomas Director of Product Management [email protected]
David Intersimone “David I”
Vice President of Developer Relations and Chief Evangelist [email protected]
Agenda: Topics and Trends
• What developers need to know to be successful in 2012
• Productive Windows and Mac application development in your workplace
• Adding mobile applications to your business infrastructure
• Cloud applications and storage and their impact on software developers
• Multi-client, multi-platform, multi-database, multi-tier – how to leverage it all in 2012
Windows and Mac
• Windows is the leading desktop platform
• Mac growth leads globally – Q3-2011 Mac’s 24.6% growth dwarfed 5.3% growth in total PC shipments
• Apple Soars to Third Place in U.S. PC Market With 10.7% Share
• Mac is the onramp to iOS
Sources: Wired.com, TechCrunch.com, Tech.Fortune.Cnn.com, Engadget,
Gartner, IDC, Needham & Co.
Mac workplace prohibition is officially repealed!
“Mac business users have been shown to be more productive than their PC counterparts, prompting Forrester
Research to encourage companies to support Apple hardware in the
workplace.” Source: AppleInsider, Forrester Research
Mac and iOS Business Impact
ISVs • Market to a larger
audience
• Faster time to market with the same codebase
• Increase their revenue by adding Mac applications to their portfolio
Enterprise
• Eliminate the need to outsource costly Mac development
• Leverage existing resources and save money
• Faster time to market – ability to address BYOD trend
60 million Mac users
Source: Apple Keynote, Oct. 2011
64-bit – Gartner Perspective
• 2014: 75% of corporate PCs will be Win64
• Businesses are choosing 4GB+ for new PCs
• Windows desktops will eventually be 64-bit only
• Companies should start preparing now
Source:
http://www.dailytech.com/Gartner+75+Percent+of+Corpora
te+PCs+Will+Run+64Bit+Windows+by+2014/article17140.htm
Next Generation Business Applications
• High performance GPU powered Scalable Vector UIs
• Maximum resolution on any device • Lighting, textures, and animations • HUDs with transparencies and transition effects • Live data visualization
Web
• Leverage the best of the Web
– TCP, HTTP/HTTPS
– HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript
• Build standalone "native" mobile apps
• Create Mobile optimized web applications
• Google Maps, Facebook Applications
Mobile Operating Systems
Desktop and Mobile Convergence
• IDC’s 2012 number one prediction for application development and deployment !
• PC’s will get more sensor parity with devices
• Mac will take on more iOS features
• Chrome moves into Android OS
• HTML 5, CSS3 and JavaScript are now first class citizens for developers and UIs
• Think and design for a “Touch first” UI
• Windows 8 – running on desktops and tablets
Multi-Tier and Cloud
• High-speed connectivity to popular databases
• Multi-tier applications
• Clients on multiple computers and devices
• Connect to the world of data, services, and the cloud
Touch, Gestures and Voice
• Touch
– iPhone brings touch to the mainstream
– Windows 7 & RAD Studio 2010’s Gesture Manager
• Gestures
– Kinect for Windows
• Voice
– Commands, input
– iPhone 4S Siri “beta” – shows what is possible
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