Comments on: Peter Coffee’s 25 Killer Apps of All Time http://www.elharo.com/blog/software-development/2007/02/23/peter-coffees-25-killer-apps-of-all-time/ Ranting and Raving Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:12:38 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: bob http://www.elharo.com/blog/software-development/2007/02/23/peter-coffees-25-killer-apps-of-all-time/comment-page-1/#comment-47843 bob Sat, 24 Feb 2007 21:28:27 +0000 http://www.elharo.com/blog/software-development/2007/02/23/peter-coffees-25-killer-apps-of-all-time/#comment-47843 Interesting how his list is all client-side apps. Nowhere does he mention the server app that's serving all those pages to the "killer" web browsers. Yet if it weren't for the servers, there wouldn't even be a web. How about a list of the 25 INVISIBLE Killer Apps of All Time? Near the top of that list I'd have to put the airline scheduling and reservations systems. You know, that software that when it's working, you never even think about, but when it fails you wonder how any airlines ever work at all. Interesting how his list is all client-side apps.

Nowhere does he mention the server app that’s serving all those pages to the “killer” web browsers. Yet if it weren’t for the servers, there wouldn’t even be a web.

How about a list of the 25 INVISIBLE Killer Apps of All Time?

Near the top of that list I’d have to put the airline scheduling and reservations systems. You know, that software that when it’s working, you never even think about, but when it fails you wonder how any airlines ever work at all.

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