TIBCO General Interface
Check out the following Jon Udell screen cast of the General Interface product from TIBCO. This is really impressive stuff. The general direction I’ve been taking with software products is a smart client + .NET direction. Browser + javascript implementations such as this and yesterdays post on Virtual Earth does make me wonder about concentrating more effort on the latest web/browser technologies. My opinion is still that in the long run a smart client based on a virtual machine is a better approach to implementing most applications. The browser/javascript development environments always seemed so disorganized and inconsistent to me – fully of arbitrary rules and restrictions. Time will tell whether the smart client approach will actually get anywhere though. It may just be another footnote in the history of computing buzzwords.