PLATFORM
In terms of computers, a platform means an underlying computer system on which application programs can run. Examples of such platform are:
Windows 2000 and the Mac OS X (on personal computers),
A platform consists of:
Coordinating program of computer system (built on the instruction set for a processor or microprocessor);
Hardware (performs logic operations, manages data movement in the computer).
The term "platform" became popular after the first Web 2.0 conference in 2004 which was hosted by Tim O´Reilly Media and MediaLive. In this
conference John Batelle and Tim O´Reilly outlined the "Web as Platform´s" definition. This defined that software applications are built upon the Web as
opposed to upon the desktop.
Web 2.0 was made by contrasting with Web 1.0. O´Reilly associated Web 1.0 with the business models of Netscape and the Encyclopedia Britannica
Online.
To replace desktop Netscape promoted a "WebTop" and designed to populate that with information updates pushed to the WebTop by information
providers who would purchase Netscape servers.
Web 2.0 has more advantages that web 1.0. It´s websites provides users to do more than just regain information. "Network as platform" provides users
with computing, with allowance to run software-applications entirely through a browser.
Overall developers build Web-based applications that run on the Web, that are completely independent of the user´s actual computer operating system. The
biggest advantage is that Web 2.0 facilitates the user of the Web as a development platform.
Created: 18/12/2009
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