Executive Update

RIAs to the Rescue: The Richness of Web 2.0

Posted April 30, 2007 | Technology |

In Part I (Vol. 10, No. 8) of this two-part Executive Update series on rich Internet applications (RIAs, pronounced ree-ahs), I lamented the way that the Web app tsunami set back user interface evolution by almost a decade, derailing architectural thinking and tossing us back to an essentially forms-based interface. But the situation is rapidly improving.

About The Author
John Tibbetts
John Tibbetts' consulting career spans 35 years. He is a former Senior Consultant with Cutter's Business & Enterprise Architecture practice. For the past 21 years, through his consulting company Kinexis, he has focused on helping enterprises and their software vendors articulate and implement coherent, principled software architectures. He works with technical architecture teams as they come to strategic decisions and, at the other end of… Read More
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