Here is this weeks round up. A collection of RIA articles and blog posts relevant to the market and technology trends.
Business Case for RIA
Virtual Panel on "The Current and Future State of RIA"
Impact
By Staff Writer, March 04, 2009
Info Q has just conducted a Virtual Panel on “The Current and Future State of RIA” featuring the thoughts of many individuals from well‑known and well‑respected companies in the space such as: Mozilla, Curl, Java, Microsoft and Adobe. Each spokesperson was provided with a series of questions relating to whether RIA technologies have “made it”, what the optimal user experience of the RIA should be, what other applications will be driving RIA technology adoption, as well as an overview of the various RIA frameworks and languages.
It's Time To Update The Enterprise Software Licensee Bill of Rights!
Forrester
By Ray Wang, March 05, 2009
With the market now in favor of the enterprise software licensee, its now time to update the Enterprise Software Licensee's Bill of Rights to include newer topics such as virtualization, SaaS and subscription pricing, newer usage based pricing models, open source, and vendor lock-in avoidance. As mentioned in a call to action in a December 2008 Monday's Musings, this groundbreaking report, originally published in December 2006, will be updated to reflect current market conditions. The goal - improve this reusable contract negotiation model that cuts across the 5 key phases of the software ownership life cycle:
RIA technologies and the downturn
ZDNet
By Ryan Stewart, March 05, 2009
The news is a pretty depressing place right now but there was a small article in the Economist about how the Fashion industry is responding to the downturn that caught my eye. Towards the end of the article the Economist mentioned how designers are looking for ways to leverage digital distribution:
Technology Comparisons
Flash is Dominating the Landscape, but Silverlight is Growing
InfoQ
By Abel Avram, March 10, 2009
A RIA statistics page is publishing the numbers of browsers having RIA plug‑ins installed on a daily basis. The RIA space today is occupied by Flash but Silverlight is catching up.
RIA User Interfaces
The Weekly RIA RoundUp for March 9
Inside RIA.com
By David Tucker, March 09, 2009
This week the Flex SDK gets some bug fixes, iLog releases a new set of visualization components, the new version of jQuery UI was released, Microsoft provides some guidance on Silverlight development, and a talk on the future of Rich Internet Applications. All this and more on the Weekly RIA RoundUp from InsideRIA.
Microsoft heralds Silverlight‑Eclipse link
Info World
By Paul Krill, March 09, 2009
Microsoft is touting support for its Silverlight multimedia application technology in the Eclipse open source tools platform.
Schwartz Explains Sun For You Part 2
SD Times
By Alex Handy, March 06, 2009
Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's CEO, has been laying out the case for his company's future in his blog recently. Earlier this week, he gave a broad overview of his three‑ or four‑part talk. This is part two of that series. Go watch if you're interested in the company.
Framework for Flex Developers Goes Open Source
Dr. Dobb's Journal
By Staff Writer, March 05, 2009
Farata Systems has open sourced its Clear Toolkit 3.1 framework for developing enterprise Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex and Java. Sun loses Apache and Spring vote on latest Enterprise Java
The Register
By Gavin Clarke, March 05, 2009
Updated: Sun Microsystems' rocky relationship with open source over Java is again in the spotlight, after it lost support of two influential groups for the latest update to enterprise Java.
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