01/23/2012 03:49:35 PM EST

Hi Victoria, Yes these things are going to be happening, which is a good thing. Moreover, I have seen them happen for quite a while now. Actually, we are doing this since the seventies. The core of this is the "understand the needs of the user" part. Should Pewles google for "know thy user", for example, he would be swamped by more than 2 million hits. In enterprise software the users are usually known, sometimes by their names. Their needs are also well known, and if not it is possible to address them in person, as opposed to public web apps where the user is mostly anonymous and the developers must create synthetic users named "personas". Or are we talking about different things when we say "enterprise software"? Regards, Juan Lanus

ArgentinaJuan Lanus

04/28/2012 12:35:43 PM EST

Enterprise software development is primarily about workflow efficiency while enforcing business rules. Only a few executives and maybe the sales force care about anything mobile. When I read an article like this it makes me shake my head. It's pie in the sky nonsense. If you look behind the curtains at SAP, Sage, Epicor, and the like you will see 10 - 20 year old technologies as the primary development environment. Apple is irrelevant in the Enterprise software world, and Microsoft is trying to be them, so the big Enterprise software developers are stuck in the mud waiting either for Microsoft to wake up and focus on their real needs or a new player to emerge.

United StatesRobert Morgan