Gary J Hardy (born August 26, 1952), is a Professional Software Engineer working in the computer software industry since 1982. Developing software at; Apple Computer, Digital Equipment Corporation, EarthLink, General Electric, IBM, Intel, Netscape, Sun Microsystems, Dun & Bradstreet, as well as many other small to medium sized companies.
For the record. There are three reliable, mature, broadly understood non-COTS enterprise application platforms/frameworks circa 2014; JEE, LAMP, and .NET. For a number of years my development efforts have been focused on leveraging two of those well-understood technology stacks; Java Enterprise Edition and the open-source Linux stack. Effectively and efficiently capitalizing on those technologies to meet current business needs is always my primary goal. Dealing with the known limitations for a project’s/product’s server technology stack [e.g. tomcat/java/spring-mvc/apache-cxf/hibernate/rdbms] vs. “exploring” the unknown limitations of a new [and, in theory, improved] technology is almost never in the best interest of any business. Put another way. Enterprise architecture [and development thereof] must be 99% solid product development and 1% R&D to succeed.
With all that said, if the new technology frontier is non-browser based mobile computing with a fat[-ish] client/server model then 24/7 back-end reliably will be critical. That is not only full-circle from the 1980’s/90’s but what I firmly believe can be achieved with current resources [people] and tools [JEE/LAMP] available today.