Brittlerock, I can reinforce your positions across the board from a somewhat different perspective. The one qualification that I might make is that “the times they are a changing” in some respects. The move to mobile and web interfaces and rich customer and supply chain applications has become almost precipitous compared to the rate at which such new technologies were rolled out in the past. I’m not at all sure how this is going to shake out, but it certainly creates a demand for nimbleness and puts a premium on technologies which can rapidly adapt to different environments. It seems only a few years ago when the norm was developing native applications for each mobile environment and now there is a high premium on a single development environment which will provide native-like results across multiple deployment platforms.
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