On Mar 2, 2012, at 3:40 PM, Jean Laeremans wrote:
> Well Ed i'm in the rather fortunate position not to give 'a damn
> any-more ' but we do have our little intranet around here (some 80,000
> pcs) and now every app has to be a web (cloud) app - java + db2
> basically - and they're - to put it mildly - aren't doing very well.
> In fact i do consider it to be a rather expensive mistake.
> One solution fits all is sheer madness imo.
Ah, but considering a web app as "one solution" is misleading. What you
describe sounds more like a poorly-designed web app that is not indicative of
web apps in general. Just like when you hear someone claim that VFP sucks
because some joker wrote a crappy app in VFP for their company once upon a time.
Within Rackspace, all of our internal support and management apps are
all web-based. That's really the only design that will scale as we
simultaneously add customers, support techs, offices, etc. Rolling out new
versions of desktop apps that have to support all sorts of devices would be
prohibitive in a company that has to respond in internet time.
In the late 90s I resisted the trend to web apps, because the
interfaces were so godawful compared to desktop apps. That's all changed now;
there are now much cleaner interfaces possible with the better Javascript
toolkits than you can create in a UI toolkit such as wxPython or Gtk or KDE or
any of the desktop UI toolkits.
-- Ed Leafe
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