Eclipse Internet Blog

A visit by a Microsoft guy to talk about development tools got me thinking about this, really as an adjunct to the previous post about Web 2.0.

We do need to think about what we are going to do in future. It’s easy to say that we will rely on 3rd party delivered applications, and there is no doubt that we will do this as it is the fastest way to getting core functionality..

However, our value to customers comes through what we deliver & how we deliver it. That means that we will still be hooking applications together and making them deliver that value to our users & customer…and that needs coding of some sort..

Don’t forget that modern applications come as a bunch of services – look at Remedy as a good example, and Epicor’s plans look very similar. We’re looking at Workflow tools to tie this all together, and we’re going to be increasing involved in this..

We need to be thinking about how we code & deliver. And more importantly the tools we’re going to use. Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley looks at some of the tools coming out of Microsoft which will help us with putting value out to the world. Not mentioned is some of their more formal coding tools, building test into coding for example via Spec# for example..

We need to think about what we want to deliver – are we going to prototype & do we need RAD tools for this? Can we deliver richer information? Can we deliver robust web services? Lets get thinking & talking here.