Several discussions about cross-platform languages and applications arose my curiousity. So, how often do TR members create or have created cross-platform applications?
[b]Definition:[/b]A cross-platform application works on multiple operating systems and hardware. Maybe for the sake of this discussions, we can consider applications that need to be just compiled under a different OS to make it cross-platform.
1) Years of experience:
2) Application kinds: (business/enterprise, games, embedded, system etc.)
3) Application genre: (are the applications products or non-products)
4)Primary OS platform:
5) Creation Frequency:(All the time, Sometimes, Never)
Please feel free to share any other comments or information that you feel necessary.
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Let me start the ball rolling:
1. Years of experience: [b]15yrs in IT, atleast 12yrs in software development.[/b]
2. Application Kind: [b]Business/Enterprise[/b]
3. Application Genre: [b]Non-products and products[/b]
4. Primary OS Platform: [b]Windows[/b]
5. Creation Frequency: [b]Never[/b]
[b]Comments:[/b] Being an enterprise/business application developer (both Web and non-Web), I have been never asked to create a cross-platform application. I have worked in enterprises that have myraid technologies. The presentation tier and middle tier sometimes use different technologies. For example, at least in two enterprises the front ends were created for Windows (hence based on MS) and the middle tiers were based on Java.
My experience in developing products was long long ago, applications developed in Foxpro 2.6, PowerBuilder and Delphi that were just Windows based.
Edited: the title, typos
