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A lot of enterprise companies aren't buying in JS frameworks because the velocity of those frameworks is too fast. I kind of agree. When you have 50,000 desktop
by cjsuk 9y ago
A lot of enterprise companies aren't buying in JS frameworks because the velocity of those frameworks is too fast. I kind of agree. When you have 50,000 desktops, a 6 month lead dragging a pile of apps over to a new browser is a nightmare scenario. All it takes is one app which the vendor doesn't give a shit about and one internal app deprecating an IE version used by 50 users due to a JS framework change in a branch office and there's a headache from hell on your plate.
Fortunately they're all starting to kick out chrome for business now.
- tannhaeuser 9y agoMaybe for those customers it might make sense to donate to the Eclipse foundation to keep JSF etc. alive and to keep Java-only devs afloat? But then maintenance of J2EE has ceased because it's not economically feasible.
- cjsuk 9y agoIt probably would but it won't happen. It's difficult getting anything like that through the layers of purchasing hell. If they provided a web site with pictures of boxes of software for min $2000 that never arrived and didn't do anything it might work better. The moment someone says "donate" the bean counters start sharpening their pitchforks.
- pjmlp 9y agoWe have customers were using Chrome is a security risk, because they cannot control its deployments like on FF, IE and Edge.
- cjsuk 9y agoFortunately that excuse is no longer valid as they have GPO templates, MSI packages, the lot: https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/7358568 https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/7358568
- pjmlp 9y agoThanks for the heads up, unfortunately it won't change the IT internal guidelines.
- cjsuk 9y agoThis is when I tend to find a new company to work for :)
- pjmlp 9y agoExcept that these cases are not my employer rather some customers. In any case, I am pretty much against the mentality here that it is to switch jobs just because something isn't nice and shinny at the current employer, or customer. Not every place on Earth is like SV avid for software developers.
- Delmania 9y agoMost of those companies use AngularJS for that specific reason. It's stable, well tested and documents, and it works.