>>The market is moving to mobile devices driven by vendors who don't give a proverbial about NET, or about SQL Server for that matter.
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>>Would you mind qualifying this rather general statement of "the market is moving to mobile devices..."?
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>For starters Web-Frontends (and probably MSTC-like used apps) have to include Smartphones/xPads as possible input devices.
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>> The most deployed database in the world is sqlite which is an absolutely dominant force by now and IMHO you'd be a fool to consider anything else for a mobile app at this stage unless you're using cloud in which case you go with the provider who offers the best terms.
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>>You do realize, I hope that sqlite is viewed by even its supporters as "hacky" and still quite immature as a product....
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>You could also argue that the standards they compare to are higher ;-)
>Sqlite is used at the basis of Firefox, Thunderbird, Nokia, Android... you probably have not looked lately ;-)
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>regards
>
>thomas

And Java may be heading in a new direction (or not) :o)
http://adtmag.com/articles/2011/01/26/oracle-java-future-report.aspx

And as for Java Script, some folks have been saying for years now that "The language of the future is javascript." That's an entirely different subject.

As to mobile apps, but I know of corporations writing mobile apps for Android now.

I see a lot of stuff like this now:
http://composedcrap.blogspot.com/2009/08/connecting-to-net-web-service-from.html
http://jahbromo.blogspot.com/2010/07/android-connection-une-base-distante.html#comment-form