Microsoft has split their development products into 2 areas presentation and business rules. The presentation people take results given to them by the business application and present it on the phone and web. The business rules developers have little to do with presentation. Many developments in the U2 world are starting to move that way, where the business rules developers are U2 and the presentation developers are another group such as .Net. Hence U2 people are not aware of the phone development.
Another issue that would concern organisations is how to handle security and identification of remote users. Creating an application on the phone is simple. How you connect from the phone to the database with encryption, passwords, etc is an area that people fear. Simple web services are easy, but when you then want to know that it is really joe blog that is calling the web service, it becomes another level of complexity. Finally the issue is the cost benefit analysis. Do I write an app that allows executives to access KPIs from my application. Would sending them an email with the KPIs be far cheaper and simpler. At what point is it productivity and at what point is it playing with technology. _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
