Do you have any plans to develop enterprise software in 2012? Interesting set of predictions is coming from Christian Verstraete and his HP blog about cloud software. Christian is Chief Technologist of Cloud strategy at HP. Navigate to the following link to read more. One of the predictions about cloud (no surprise, since this is what Christian is responsible of). Read the following passage:
New applications are developed in the cloud. IDC predicts that in 2012 over 80% of new commercial enterprise applications are developed on cloud platforms. SAP, Oracle and the other large software providers start investing drastically in cloud to counter the start-ups providing next generation applications as a service. It looks like HR might be the next battleground although it is not clear at the moment how the privacy issues are addressed
HP is a big gorilla thinking about building more software in a near future. Few months ago, HP acquired Autonomy – UK based software vendors for about 10B. This is quite a number… It is interesting to see where HP will navigate Autonomy development in a near future. Autonomy IDOL platform was OEMed by multiple PLM vendors in the past.
What is my conclusion? Development of enterprise software always was a very slow and complicated process. However, things can change soon. Think about Appificated ways to develop enterprise software on the cloud – is it a dream or reality? Time will show… Just my thoughts…
Best, Oleg
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Hi Oleg,
May I recommend a book by Kevin Mitnick, one of the worlds preeminent hackers. It is called “Ghost in the Wires”. As a little backround this is the guy who was slick enough to evade the FBI for quite some time. One of his methods was hacking into the FBI computer system to find out how their search for him was progressing. Yes I did say the FBI who I assume do have rudimentary skills in security. Well at least until they run into a good hacker.
Kevin’s position is there is not, will not be and can not be ironclad security for anything that has access to the web. Promoters of the cloud do their customers a tremendous dis-service by representing this as secure and safe. Your only hope of security on the web is you have nothing worth someones time to hack into. As for those who do tough luck.
Do you know of any cloud offering vendor who will guarantee safety in writing?
Dave, Thanks for sharing this book link. I already captured it from one of your comments on other blogs. I like to bring the definition of “good enough” principle into this conversation. For the last 2-3 decades, “good enough” principle worked well for many businesses and served lots of consumers and B2B by providing affordable solutions. It is true for cars, consumer electronic, home appliance, web apps and many other things. I don’t think cloud is safe enough for all companies. However, for some of them, it is “good enough” and probably will be “cost-effective” to take a risk. What about results? I think will be interesting to see in 5-10 years… Just think about salesforce.com 10 years ago. What is your take? Best, Oleg