"I think people are pretty shocked and surprised" that a deal didn't happen, says Keith Rabois, vice president of strategy and business development at Slide, a Webapplicationdeveloper.
And rather than envision some sort of uber developer, who understands big data, web performance optimization, application middleware, and fault tolerance in a massively distributed environment, we need operations specialists on the development teams.
The Sprint ApplicationDeveloper Program has been providing tools for third-party developers since Sprint first launched the Wireless Web on its phones in 2001.