Re: Browser as Platform (was DesignBais - Impressive)


Kevin Powick wrote:
dawn wrote:

Yes, that is the case and you would not believe the discussions I had
on this topic as the director of IT at a college.

I live in a "University town", with several institutions in the area.
I've also done work with some of them. My sister is an academic and is
married to the IT director (another academic) of a university. I have
no difficulty understanding the situation you describe.

Good deal.

Dealing with academics is often a struggle. They live in their own
little bubbles, detatched from the "real world". Smart people, but
often terrible dealing with much that is outside of their narrow field
of expertise.

The waste of money in higher education is astounding. A recent example
is one of our local Universities recieved 8 million dollars to buy all
sorts of neat-o equipment for one of their bio-tech facilities.
Unfortunately, when they applied for the grant, they forgot they would
need software and staff to run the equipment. The equipment is pretty
cool looking though. LOL!

I've seen campuses build buildings without money for custodial services
too because of grants or donations.

But only having information systems that are "within a company" is not
exactly the future either, is it? A business is likely to have
supplier pages, dealer pages, customer pages, etc. that are also
information systems and not just documents. If not today, then
tomorrow.

I don't know about you, but my on-line banking application has a
minimum web browser requirement. As do at least 2 other company to
consumer web-based applications that I use.

I've never hit a limit with any of mine, nor noticed one as a customer
anywhere, but I can recall one place where I could not use FireFox --
w3cschools.com. They have examples in some of their tutorials that
require IE.

If you wish to code to a lowest common denominator go ahead, but a line
has to be drawn somewhere.

Agreed. You need to mitigate for future risks and their liklihood of
occurance. If the liklihood that your company will need to support a
browser or an OS other than Microsoft for one or more apps is really
low then cross-platform support might not need to be considered at this
point. It is likely that an MS-only solution today might also migrate
to what you need tomorrow as well, given what seems to be a large
number of MS-only developers. CICS COBOL does not limit you to MVS
today. There might even be a CICS COBOL "framework" for AJAX today.
mv.NET just announced their AJAX support for Pick. I wouldn't want to
be one of those CICS COBOL AJAX programmers today, but I surely don't
think that a Microsoft lockin today is a poorer decision than a Pick
lockin in the 80's, and that has saved or made many companies millions
of dollars.

I'm rambling, sorry (no time to edit, sorry again). Cheers! --dawn

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