IBM the Leader in Application Development
June 29, 2009
Short honk: Here’s the set up. A $100 billion consulting company that also sells some hardware and some software wants to be a player in application development. The company’s executives know that the Google has pulled off the Wave PR coup. The company’s technical wizards use php and other open source languages. Lots of people use Java which is still pretty much free, taught in basic computer classes, and much loved by software developers from Germany and Google.
What’s the response?
Find a way for an azure chip consultant to snarf down a news release that asserts IBM is the leader in application development. Don’t believe me? Navigate to “IBM Maintains Leadership in Application Development” and see for yourself. The story was distributed by Thomson Reuters. The byline is IBM and FirstCall, a Thomson service for the deep pocket set. The consulting firm was Gartner with a squirt of PR whip cream from Evans Data Corp.’s User Choice Survey.
For me the salient paragraph was:
In today’s economic climate, businesses are realizing that building a competency in software is crucial to their long-term growth and success. As companies deploy increasingly intelligent, interconnected and instrumented solutions, they must treat the software they build or assemble as a strategic business asset. However, enabling this innovation, lowering costs and managing change is dependent on the effectiveness of their software and systems development process. IBM Rational can provide organizations with a collaborative software delivery platform, capabilities, and time-tested processes to arm development teams with the necessary tools to make software delivery a core business strength.
The addled goose does not know what this means. So, the addled goose navigated to IBM.com, entered the query “Gartner Evans Data”. What do you think the result set reported? Fourteen hits to reports, comments, and pats on the back from these companies on behalf of IBM.
My conclusion: ask a professional developer.
Stephen Arnold, June 30, 2009
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Find a way for an azure chip consultant to snarf down a news release that asserts IBM is the leader in application development. Don’t believe me?, No i Don,t believe this!