Corporate Technology Buzzwords

Let’s examine some of today’s corporate technology buzzwords, to discover any
common principles for corporate software development. We’ll provide guidelines for investing in custom development of business tools.

To do this, we’ll take apart Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Portals, Open Source and Open Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and Web Services. We’ll clarify Web 2.0, XML, SOAP, AJAX, and SQL. We’ll see if Microsoft’s got anything new which may make our decisions easier. We’ll unravel .NET and the “Windows vs. Web” dilemma. We’ll briefly explain Apache, Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby on Rails, and then we’ll talk about what has happened to Java, J2EE, and Oracle, and what is happening to tools such as Delphi and 4D.

Lastly, we’ll describe NSK's internal goals for long term software investment, and we’ll explain why our total cost of maintenance on a software application is low, only when our client’s total cost of ownership is low. We’ll show you how business buzzwords happen.

Written by Keith Mitchell, Senior Developer at NSKinc