One of its core products, BBX, introduced in 1985, provides application developers with software for programming.

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Interested developers can find a link to submit innovative ideas, and sign up for the latest information and news about the SYNC application programming interface (API) and software development kit (SDK).

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Jolicloud is a stripped down operating system that, instead of running software, connects to Web services using their application programming interface (API).

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Crucially, the case focuses not on using the Java programming language itself, but rather the use of 37 application programming interfaces (APIs) which help developers create software on the platform.

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Although the fledgling platform has some speed and stability problems, and its application programming interface (the means by which other bits of software plug into it) is not yet complete, collaboration experts are excited.

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Outside software developers were also promised the coding or API's (application programming interfaces) that Windows developers have for programs like Microsoft Office.

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