>> We are planning on a long term conversion, with our goal being to have the >> entire application suite converted by the 2015.<<
While it is always great to get a customer with a long-term new project, I no longer look at them as a complete blessing. By 2015 Microsoft will introduce at least two or three technologies and have deprecated those and three others. I only wish I was making this stuff up. Unfortunately anything you pick today will be different by 2015 as four years is an eternity in our industry. The tools and languages you pick today will either be too mature to keep people's interest, or on the way to being too mature to keep their interest. I have talked with many .NET developers are already getting bored and many of them are looking toward Ruby as the new cool thing of late. Will Ruby keep their interest until 2015? I don't know. Developers had a tendency toward having ADD. Interestingly, recent public reports shows Microsoft has embraced JavaScript and HTML5 as their new development platform of choice for Windows 8. I am personally shocked by this decision since they have no control over either, and anyone who develops with them can do it without the need for Windows for development or deployment. Most developers are not going to program to Internet Explorer extensions these days when IE has lost the lead in market share. And lots of developers with .NET experience are feeling a *new* stinging sensation of abandonment and are questioning their loyalty. So what advantage does Microsoft have with this new platform? Sounds like somebody in the Windows division at Microsoft shot the company in the foot without consulting the Developer division. We live in interesting times. Rick White Light Computing, Inc. www.whitelightcomputing.com www.swfox.net www.rickschummer.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
