Workshop B: Which Platform is Best to Develop For, and Why?
Led by Bill Weinberg, Senior Executive and Mobile Practice Partner, Olliance Group
Workshop Summary
With the amount of platforms available to develop for increasing, it is crucial to understand which platforms provide the best opportunities for the mobile ecosystem. This workshop will not only assess all of the current major open platforms but will also analyze what they offer the developer from both a strategic and technical point of view. How much does each platform support the developer? What’s the approval process like? What sort of revenue can you expect? How easy is it to update one ach platform? Through expert analysis your workshop leader will provide compelling evidence for which platform he believes will win out in the end, and which ones will fall away.
Your Workshop Leader
Bill Weinberg brings two decades of open source, embedded and open systems, telecommunications, and other technology experience to his role as Principal Analyst and Consultant at Linuxpundit.com. In tandem with Linuxpundit, Bill works with the Olliance Group as Senior Executive and Mobile Practice Manager.
Bill's career has included work with key industry standards consortia, serving as General Manager of the Linux Phone Standards Forum (LiPS), and as Senior Analyst and Initiative Manager at Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), where he ran OSDL Mobile Linux and Carrier Grade programs. Prior to OSDL, Bill was a founding team-member at MontaVista Software, helping to pioneer and establish Linux as the leading platform for intelligent devices. In his extensive and varied career, Bill also worked at Lynx Real-Time Systems, Acer Computer Brazil, and Microtec Research.
Bill is well known for his writing and speaking on topics ranging from global adoption of Linux to embedded/real-time computing, from application migration to licensing and standardization, and from telecom infrastructure to mobile applications. Bill is a prolific contributor to print and on-line journals including LinuxUser, Search Enterprise Linux and RTC Magazine, and is a frequent speaker and panelist at events.
- 09.30 Registration
10.00 Session One: An assessment of Android, Symbian, Moblin, Palm, RIM, Windows and Maemo
11.00 Break
11.15 Session Two: An assessment of what they offer the developer from a technical point of view
12.30 Lunch
1.30 An assessment of what they offer the developer from a business point of view
2.45 Afternoon Coffee
3.00 An insight into what developers want from a platform
4.00 Who will win out and who will fall away
5.00 Close of Workshop
