Re: Need support from existing platforms
Thanks, Ms. M, I will have to check those platforms out. You are a limitless fount of programming knowledge.
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4/29/2012 5:16:38 PM
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Re: Need support from existing platforms
Sorry, I don't know much about the Azure platform or Microsoft's web-based development tools. I assume they are at least working on such an offering since they've put some much work into the online version of Microsoft Office.
As far as cloud-based IDEs, I think there's a future for such products. Code Anywhere has a pretty sweet interface and the service works as advertised. Cloud 9 is in the same category but offers a lot more.
Re: Need support from existing platforms
I see what you are saying, Taimoor. Microsoft would be the obvious provider of such a cloud-based platform designed for users of Visual Studio. I don;t know enough about that company's offerings, but perhaps their Azure cloud platform is doing what you've described.
On the other hand, it may be that not too many people wish to build Web-oriented apps in Visual Studio, which is focused on its own limited set of languages - C, C#, etc.. There seem to be highly popular languages, such as Ruby on Rails and PHP, that lend themselves well to use on the Web.
Well, I certainly don't know enough to comment too intelligently on this. Perhaps others will chime in.
Need support from existing platforms
From what I have seen, developers are stubborn creatures. It's very difficult to make them switch from one platform to another. If PaaS has to become a success, it needs support from existing platforms so that it's easy for developers to make the transition towards PaaS. What I'm talking about here is Visual Studio coming up with a cloud version where the developers no longer have to purchase it and install on their machines. They'd use a cloud-based platform for development, testing and deployment of all applications and it needs to be very much similar to a desktop-based platform they have been using.
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