Remember LANs disintermediating IT in the 80s? Can Serena do the same with mashups?

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As long as the app is simple...

It's a great concept--let non-programmers build simple apps--that has never really worked in practise. Mash-ups are inherently going to be harder to work with, due to the SOA APIs being non-standardised and generally poorly documented. Munging the data between multiple such APIs will almost always require writing code, and would quickly get beyond what is possible with a visual environment. So, this is probably a useful tool for building simple alternative front-ends for a single data provider like Salesforce, but you'd very quickly end up going beyond what the tool could support.

This does seem like the latest incarnation of the dream pushed by tools vendors of finally being able to get rid of those fussy, slow and expensive software engineers, letting the management types build software themselves. How hard can it be, right? I've been hearing this kind of thing for 15 years...

Posted by: Jason Etheridge   Posted on: 08/21/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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