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Why online applications have won -- and native environments haven't

Imagine for a second that you just developed a piece of software that works online. Let's pick a random category: project management. In 2009-2010, you probably spent countless hours creating something very dynamic, with some 45000 lines of snappy Javascript. You then decide to make your application available to mobile devices. The question is: do you develop N native applications for N mobile platforms? Or do you develop one online application that works everywhere?

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Work anywhere: technologies to move your business online

Once upon a time, going to work implied commuting from your home to your office, and -- most importantly -- implied that everybody had to have their "office space". It used to be a desk. Then it became a desk with a PC. Now, it has often evolved to a desk with a laptop. What's next?

The next step is called "freedom": it implies that you can work wherever you are, whenever you need to.

Mind you, the world will always need receptionists; and a warehouse will always need people who actually take the goods from the shelves or greet you at the checkout till.

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