Platform

Definition

By Marc Andreessen:

" a "platform" is a system that can be reprogrammed and therefore customized by outside developers -- users -- and in that way, adapted to countless needs and niches that the platform's original developers could not have possibly contemplated, much less had time to accommodate.

In contrast, an "application" is a system that cannot be reprogrammed by outside developers. It is a closed environment that does whatever its original developers intended it to do, and nothing more." (http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/06/analyzing_the_f.html)

Open Collaboration Platforms