Application architecture whether it is for mobile, server or desktop application can be broken into 3 major archetypes - standalone, connected and occasionally connected. Each has a long history and many implementations. Lets look at how these architectures can be implemented in the mobile space.
Today Sun announced it bought MySQL. Ok so this brings up a lot of questions. If a technology is developed by a community of people who gets the money? Or is it the reality that a company owned the technology and duped the community into being cheap/free labor?
Cameron Moll a author, presenter and web designer, will be releasing a new book about building mobile websites. The book Mobile Web Design per Cameron Moll
The premise of this book is threefold: Analyze current and future technologies relevant to mobile web content, confront the limitations of existing mobile devices, and discover methods for exploiting the unique opportunities afforded by mobility and its devices, both current and future.
My friend Rob Tiffany has created a maturity model for mobility. He calls it mobility infrastructure optimization or Mobility IO. You can use this model in a variety of ways.
Here is a great article by Gus Mueller. He is an independent software programmer.
