Introduction

In 2000, I started my first PalmOS mobile app for an inventory-tracking project. The initial project was a full-staffed team effort that consisted of mobile developers, SAP consultants, supply-chain SME, J2EE middleware developers, QA testers, solution architects, business sponsors, and so forth. JavaME came up strong in 2002, followed by Pocket/Windows Mobile. I did several mobile projects converting the mobile apps to the PocketPC platform by blindly translating JavaME mobile code to C# .NETCF mobile code. The “translation” efforts prolonged the whole product life cycle. The project achieved higher ROI as the product life extended, because the extra cost of translating mobile code was surprisingly low. Ever since then, I have been ...

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