Bye Bye to Mr CIO Guy

Bye Bye to Mr CIO Guy is cool. I laughed then cried (literally). We are living in a changing IT world. I believe that the tech industry is changing to the next level. We are moving away from building applications that manage data on the network to building applications that access data in a wide variety of ways (Example: web, blackberries, application, via web services). We are moving to a more real-time world with instant access from anywhere. We are moving to model that is more diverse. And unfortunately, as the song says, industry is trying to cut cost, outsourcing to cheaper countries. The issue is the bottom line. Companies are tired of software taking too long and paying for features that don’t quite meet acceptations. I believe that this will separate the software developing men from the software developing boys. We are emerging into an era where software must be built cheaper and easier. I believe that technologies like code generation tools (see Code Generation and CodeSmith) and testing frameworks (NUnit) will help in creating software faster and more reliable. We still have a long way to go before we have the software we want at the cost we want. But there is a lot of advancement taking shape.

If only someone would come up with a Rapid Application MAINTENANCE tool.