The software application developer is about to become the cloud software-as-a-service application developer. At least this is the truism that we must accept if we give full credence to the ‘trending’ topics coming out of IT vendors’ newswires just now.
Logically, as an industry, we appear to have spent most of our time up until now concentrating on the construction of cloud computing architectures, development frameworks, usage models (i.e., public, private and/or hybrid) and the multifarious issues pertaining to the migration of both data and applications.