Martin Heller
Contributing Writer

One Window?

analysis
Dec 18, 20071 min

Ephraim wonders about the necessity of having BI applications on your cellphone, and offers an alternative: One window. "a single mobile environment, a single mobile window, if you will, lower case W please, in which information can be sent to or accessed from. One window, one view, all critical information goes into that pot." We already have One Window: it's called a Web browser. We also have ways to

Ephraim wonders about the necessity of having BI applications on your cellphone, and offers an alternative: One window.

“a single mobile environment, a single mobile window, if you will, lower case W please, in which information can be sent to or accessed from.

One window, one view, all critical information goes into that pot.”

We already have One Window: it’s called a Web browser. We also have ways to overcome the limitations of Web browsers, known collectively as RIAs, in which I include Ajax.

The whole idea struck me as funny, though, and brought to mind the inscription on Isildur’s Bane (in The Lord of the Rings):

One Ring to rule them all,

One Ring to find them,

One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

or, in Elvish:

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Martin Heller

Martin Heller is a contributing writer at InfoWorld. Formerly a web and Windows programming consultant, he developed databases, software, and websites from his office in Andover, Massachusetts, from 1986 to 2010. From 2010 to August of 2012, Martin was vice president of technology and education at Alpha Software. From March 2013 to January 2014, he was chairman of Tubifi, maker of a cloud-based video editor, having previously served as CEO.

Martin is the author or co-author of nearly a dozen PC software packages and half a dozen Web applications. He is also the author of several books on Windows programming. As a consultant, Martin has worked with companies of all sizes to design, develop, improve, and/or debug Windows, web, and database applications, and has performed strategic business consulting for high-tech corporations ranging from tiny to Fortune 100 and from local to multinational.

Martin’s specialties include programming languages C++, Python, C#, JavaScript, and SQL, and databases PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, Google Cloud Spanner, CockroachDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Couchbase. He writes about software development, data management, analytics, AI, and machine learning, contributing technology analyses, explainers, how-to articles, and hands-on reviews of software development tools, data platforms, AI models, machine learning libraries, and much more.

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