Thursday 29 July 2010
Sybase’s mobile platform may provide a cloud-based lifeline for the likes of SAP, Microsoft, and Oracle, providing those legacy enterprise application vendors an entry into the mobile-computing world of the future. Sybase’s big play into cloud computing seems to be from the “client side” in the form of mobile access to applications in the cloud, not the data center side as some might expect. It may be that mobility-platform vendors are some of the biggest winners from the cloud-computing movement, as there is a lot of “work” to be done between the service and the device for most cloud applications. Yes, many cloud applications will be architected with mobility in mind (especially support for the Apple iPhone), and yes, Sybase seems to be targeting more ”traditional” Web and client-server applications, but in general, there is infrastructure that enables mobile phones to connect with cloud back-ends (e.g. 3G/4G, the Apple Store, etc.), and cloud computing could be a huge boon to mobile “glue” vendors that address the opportunity.
