Symphonix
** Warning – Very “dry” read up front, but an interesting read nonetheless.
Well, it’s been a while, but I think I have something big to announce here today. Pretty much, everyone’s heard about cloud computing by now, and if you haven’t, you’re probably either above the age of 50, or you have been living under a rock for the past few years. Can’t miss on that one.
Now, cloud computing is all fine and dandy, and the idea is absolutely brilliant, but we’re really, really far away from a proper implementation of it – that is, where it can actually replace your hard drive, which is the way Google presented the idea as. Now, we may be far away from that, but we’re not far away from applying the basic principle of cloud computing on a somewhat smaller scale.
Just count the amount of “small programs” you have on your computer, and if you’re someone who does more on his computer than just hanging around on MSN and playing a game every now and then, they can sum up to quite a few. All of these applications aren’t too large, something like 500KB up to 5MB, right? However, the developers of these applications often do still push updates for them. Keeping them up to date and even organised can become quite a hectic and tedious process, the more of them you get.
This is the reason Symphonix was designed. It was designed to launch small (1KB – 20MB) applications entirely from the internet. Of course you do need to download them, but Symphonix takes care of all this for you. This way, all applications are at the developer’s ‘place’, and the customer can launch the most recent version whenever they need it, while their configuration files and preferences are stored by Symphonix, so the applications still adapt to their preferences.
Right now I can’t tell you too much about it, but what I can in fact tell is that Symphonix is compatible with over 99% of the world’s regular, http websites. Meaning you don’t have to have a special web-server of any sort, your current web host will most likely be able to host a program for Symphonix to run, in the near future.
