Word: platformization
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...running machines feature color, digital music players, handwriting recognition and ClearType, a way to make pages more readable on small screens--Palm remains the standard in the handheld world. There are something like 3,000 programs written for the Palm OS and only a few hundred for the Microsoft platform. Among those 3,000 programs are applications that easily work with virtually every Microsoft program, rendering compatibility with your favorite desktop software a nonissue...
...Missouri would allow this and make small business exempt from mandates too. But AHPs have strong opposition from large insurers and Democrats, including Gore, who do not favor private-sector solutions for health-care problems. Republicans, though, see AHPs as a potent plank in their election-year health-care platform. Indeed, in his $42 billion health-care reform plan, the "New Prosperity Initiative" unveiled in April, Bush proposed that AHPs be offered to small-business owners through trade associations...
...Java pretty much dead as a cross-platform product, just as other browsers...
...staff believes that Sun's cross-platform Java programming language alleviates this problem. However it is not clear that writing in Java is any better a state of the industry than writing applications for Windows. Java is less powerful, and at least for the moment slower than traditional programming languages. This is not to say that the government should force the industry to adopt one platform over another, or break down the benefits of a standard...
...Wednesday as equal partners, with a NASDAQ tie-in rendering the new iX (international exchange) the 500-pound gorilla of European markets. "This deal has been in the works for years but kept breaking down over whether the merged exchange should use the German or the British electronic trading platform," says TIME Atlantic business editor Richard Hornik. "But three weeks ago, that debate was rendered moot when the British system crashed and shut down electronic trading in London for eight hours...