Jan Aleman is CEO of Servoy. He is one of the most distinguished thought leaders on Cloud Computing in the world. As secretary of EuroCloud compendium (www.eurocloud.org), he has been a disruptive technology visionary leading the cloud revolution in computing. He is a published author and heavily quoted in many IT journals such as InfoWorld, Computerworld, Dr. Dobbs and others, as well as guest and keynote speaker at many cloud computing conferences worldwide. Jan is also on the steering committee of the ICT Office SaaS/Cloud Group.
In this article we'll look at using scripting tools and languages in business
applications. I am a big proponent of using scripting languages. Personally I
use JavaScript very often: Why? Because it's fast, flexible and sexy.
Technically, when I refer to JavaScript I actually mean ECMAScript, but I'll
call it JavaScript in this article as it sounds sexier than the official
standard ECMAScript.
Fast
There are a couple of aspects to a language being "fast" - there is fast to
learn, fast to code, fast to fix, and fast to run. Because JavaScript is a
relatively simple language, it's very easy to learn. In fact, most developers
have already used it in one of the many environments that are already
JavaScript based - obviously the web-browser - but also products from large
vendors such as Adobe and Microsoft that are highly JavaScriptable.
JavaScript was initially very popu... (more)
Cloud adoption has been steadily growing over the years, but both in spite of
and because of the economy, 2010 promises to be the inflection point of
wide-scale cloud adoption. Those companies that were unaware, or semi-aware
of the cloud can no longer ignore the strong value proposition of access to
previously inaccessible productivity tools; the ability to collaborate with
teams, partners and customers; shifting focus from IT to business, and
improving speed-to-market through instantly set up solutions.
The cloud approach brings very compelling benefits to companies, which is wh... (more)
Jan Aleman is CEO of Servoy. He is one of the most distinguished thought leaders on Cloud Computing in the world. As secretary of EuroCloud compendium (www.eurocloud.org), he has been a disruptive technology visionary leading the cloud revolution in computing. He is a published author and heavily quoted in many IT journals such as InfoWorld, Computerworld, Dr. Dobbs and others, as well as guest and keynote speaker at many cloud computing conferences worldwide. Jan is also on the steering committee of the ICT Office SaaS/Cloud Group.
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