Yes, I remember. Please write me at seaky2000 at yahoo dot com and let me know what you are doing. I think enterprise software is in for a major shake up. As I recall, you were ahead of the curve with your London based company.

Stephen Arnold, October 2, 2008

We evolved Affino into becoming a fully fledged eBusiness Suite five years ago, since we believe the key to successful websites is being able to earn revenues through them and not simply for them to act as promotional tools.

The CMS market, in particular the web CMS market has become a commodity with the advent of tools such as Joomla (which is very easy to use) and Alfresco, but the need to make everything simpler is a two-way tug-of-war between working on new interfaces, wizards and automation which make it easier for users to publish, and there is no doubt that many Web 2.0 solutions are highly usable, and the needs of corporations and organisations to have highly tailored sites which match their corporate aims.

The advent of Flex in particular but also Ajax is allowing vendors to make much more usable interfaces We’re going through the exercise of making all our interfaces far more usable and intuitive by creating dynamic drag-and-drop / real-time Flex apps to do the tasks which were previously the most time-consuming.

My personal belief, and one which I’ve had for years, is that the CMS itself will become redundant over the next five to ten years or so and be replaced by fully fledged business suites which allow companies to achieve their business goals on-line and not simply publish content.