>>>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.
>>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>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
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>>thomas
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>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

A link with some commentary on Java, and a Forrester survey: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/08/oracle_loses_client_to_server/