"You are essentially celebrating the victory of consumer commerce, not technology X over technology Y."
It isn't celebrating to point out a reality of the world relative to a post that seems to imagine that every other solution was handicapped in the race. And it IS completely based upon technical merit.
"Do you really think everybody in investment banks & brokerages fire up their browser first thing in the morning ? 99% of what they did, do & will continue to do, will continue to be done via native apps - mostly C#, C++, .NET & Java apps."
Humorously I build software for the financial market. Our presentation tiers are almost entirely through web apps. The competitors I was talking about -- the ones who poured cement on their own feet -- went the "thick client" route. And we keep on iterating.
"The web is just the tip of the iceberg."
Yes. No kidding. I'm not building a database in the DOM. I'm not processing trades in JavaScript. This discussion is about the presentation tier. Every criticism of the web always holds that you could toss together something so much better in some illusory, never proven alternative, but that simply isn't true.
Yup, I build software for the financial market too. Years ago we were struggling to persuade companies that they should use html instead of sliverlight or flash. Last year, they pretty much all realised at once that they'd built millions of dollars worth of key software in dead technologies (and often struggled too). They're all back now, wanting products and help with their HTML/JS.
It isn't celebrating to point out a reality of the world relative to a post that seems to imagine that every other solution was handicapped in the race. And it IS completely based upon technical merit.
"Do you really think everybody in investment banks & brokerages fire up their browser first thing in the morning ? 99% of what they did, do & will continue to do, will continue to be done via native apps - mostly C#, C++, .NET & Java apps."
Humorously I build software for the financial market. Our presentation tiers are almost entirely through web apps. The competitors I was talking about -- the ones who poured cement on their own feet -- went the "thick client" route. And we keep on iterating.
"The web is just the tip of the iceberg."
Yes. No kidding. I'm not building a database in the DOM. I'm not processing trades in JavaScript. This discussion is about the presentation tier. Every criticism of the web always holds that you could toss together something so much better in some illusory, never proven alternative, but that simply isn't true.