Software subscription offers benefits over traditional licensing models, but software decision makers worry about their data living on someone else’s servers. Part two of a two-part series.
Visual models can reduce the effort and cost of the entire application lifecycle when the size and complexity of the app justifies using them.
We didn’t plan it this way, but this month’s issue is mainly about technologies making a fresh start. After a period of opposition or benign neglect, instant messaging is gaining acceptance in enterprises; agile programming is winning new adherents--following years when enterprises focused on control-intensive initiatives; and visual modeling is getting a second look because the newest tools deliver benefits unmatched by earlier tools, such as automatically producing much of the code for an app.
Want to supercharge your Visual Studio .NET development? My pick of utilities
these days is Developer Express' CodeRush.
Some people would have you believe that the entire .NET edifice is about
to collapse, revealed as nothing more than an exercise in aggressive
marketing. Don't you believe them.
There's a lot of information available out there via Web services these days.
Now - how do you make that information available to business users? StrikeIron
has the best answer to that question that I've seen so far.
We've had more than fifty years now to learn about the best ways to develop
software. So why is it that we have to keep learning the same lessons over and
over and over again?
Let's start the week with a few short items to clear out my mail bag. This time
around I've got the latest word from PreEmptive Solutions, Salesforce.com, and
SYWARE.
When Microsoft undertakes to explain kids to parents, it's safe to assume that
the kids are snickering in the chat rooms.
With the coming release of Visual Studio Team System, Microsoft is promising an
agile variant of their Microsoft Solutions Framework methodology. With a beta
version of the documentation out, it's time for some first impressions.
What happens to your software after you're done building it? In a large
organization, Wise Package Studio may be helping keep it under control.