Lie, who worked on the pioneering World Wide Web project at CERN and is a member of the World Wide Web Consortium Advisory Board, said he still wonders why it took so long for standards to arise that made it possible for companies to build desktop browser-borne applications designed without regard for end-user operating systems.
Lie said the intersection of maturing Web services development with the arrival of new mobile technologies such as smart phones will allow companies to tap into their existing IT infrastructures in new ways.
Lie conceded that it will likely be years before most companies are actively building and launching a majority of their own business applications in this fashion, and said more thorough testing of development environments remains a necessity for software and device makers, but he said some users are already jumping in.
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