Forrester on Office 2007: Real deal for Microsoft developers
ENT News | at | by Mike
In a May 2006 report, John R. Rymer, vice president of Application Development and Infrastructure at Forrester Research, and his team characterize the Office 2007 system as a "serious" application platform that offers enterprise developers another option for building customized Windows clients and collaboration applications. Microsoft's goal, according to Forrester Research, is to make Office part of a broader application platform, along with its Windows servers -- BizTalk, SQL, SharePoint -- and the .NET Framework. Senior Editor of our sister publication Application Development Trends Kathleen Richards talked with John Rymer to find out how developers can benefit from re-evaluating Office as a development platform.