Microsoft, IBM, SAP and Oracle have driven the software market for so many years, we're accustomed to seeing them lead new forays in high-tech.
That's not the case in the emerging sector for Web platforms, where consumer-oriented vendors such as Google, Amazon.com and eBay are ruling the roost, said an analyst at the Gartner Web Innovation show here Sept. 20.
Gartner analyst David Mitchell Smith said Google, Amazon.com, eBay and others are building Web platforms that provide access to Web-based programming capabilities. These capabilities allow programmers to build composite applications, and even businesses, on the Web at a time when the Internet is growing as fast as ever.
