I'd say not only ARS is competing against .Net and J2EE as development platforms, but also and most importantly development environments such as PHP and Ruby on Rails.
It seems to me BMC should take a look at what Oracle has been doing with the Fusion middleware. I'm not saying that this is the best option for BMC, but something to look at to get some ideas. Guillaume -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) on behalf of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Fri 07/20/07 11:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: BUW 2007 Track Sessions Announced I think it could be even simpler. ARS as a development platform is very strong. BMC could easily have three developers sit down, all with equal experience and skills in their areas. The first would be Java, the second would be .NET, and the third would be ARS. They would be given requirements to build a simple application with ten fields to track appointments or something like that. Time them and see how long it takes. Obviously, the ARS developer will finish first. While ARS is not meant to replace traditional programming, you can quickly roll out some good apps with it. Pretty much every company I've worked for has custom applications and are happy with them. I've built a lot of different things like a robust survey system, a few HR type apps, multiple project management applications, downtime tracking applications, telecom-specific applications, and energy industry specific applications, such as one I will be working on later this year to track devices on our pipelines. ARS is a great tool, and I think BMC should spend more time on how it can benefit their customers to use it to build their applications over using programming languages. Shawn Pierson _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are"
