Despite its success in the mid-tier, Linux has not been widely adopted on
enterprise desktops - primarily because there is currently very little in the
way of standards-based support for developing platform-neutral,
enterprise-class GUI applications for Linux. Enterprises will not undertake
the major effort required to move applications off of Windows unless they
know those applications will be portable - a lesson learned the hard way in
the move to Windows over the past decade.
In the same way that Visual Basic created a Rapid Application Development
(RAD) environment for Windows, RIA technology can do the same for Linux. The
Rich Internet Application (RIA) space is new and evolving, but offers the
potential for creating Linux applications that are robust, feature-rich,... (more)
It is widely known in the IT industry that by taking a service oriented
architecture (SOA) approach to engineer back-office systems enterprises
experience significant flexibility and cost savings, however, SOAs do not
address problems surrounding the development and deployment of new
applications to front-office end users. To overcome this hurdle, rich
Internet application (RIA) framewor... (more)