"CIO Insight" magazine did a recent survey of 240 CIO's on which new technologies will boost revenue for their companies.
And guess what? Rich Internet Applications(RIA) ranked as Number 2 (23.6%), right after SOA (23.9%).
Last year, I had mentioned in an
interview with Dr. Dobbs about RIA as the low hanging fruit for the enterprises to embrace Web 2.0 for business benefits. Jeffrey Hammond of Forrester Research mentioned in a
keynote address at WebBuilder 2.0 last December that for enterprises to endorse Web 2.0, the future is now. He also mentioned that 32% of the enterprises surveyed by Forrester were using or considering RIA. Therefore, the CIO Insight survey showing RIA as second highest in priority to boost revenue does not come as a surprise.
Curl's RIA Platform has been used by over 300 enterprises and many have shown quantitative benefits to their business, over the client-server applications. The requirements to use RIA at the enterprise level is very different and much more stringent. They are looking for industrial-strength attributes such as high performance, extreme reliability, very high security, and big-time scalability. I recently blogged about what
questions companies need to ask RIA vendors. Just getting a Flash video stream is not good enough for business-critical applications.
Earlier this year, Curl was awarded the
best RIA Platform by InfoWorld. The proof is always with real deployment and benefits by customers.
Mike Vizard of eWeek
refers to this survey in his recent blog. He
covered the importance of RIA and mentioned Curl as a vendor to watch last December.
When it comes to Enterprise RIA, Curl clearly is the defacto leader.
