Weary Mappers

A few weeks ago, I pointed out for discussion Ron Bruder's article in Eau Claire-based ADC's GeoWire newsletter on "Navigating Shifts in Technology" with reference to their decidedly un-plugged (as in no-plug-in) approach to application development... for discussion.

Yesterday, I found myself in a staff discussion on a similar topic, so I found it timely that this morning, Direction's Magazine delivered a podcast on GIS Goes HTML5 .

In addition, from the comments section - we find AppGeo's Mike Terner delivering a similar food-for-thought presentation this week - with slides provided.

As Adena and Joe point out in the podcast, it's not like we're going to see all the Flash/Flex and Silverlight sites disappear overnight.  And it is true that this discussion has been amplified by recent announcements by Adobe and Microsoft with regard to the future of these plug-in based technologies on mobile devices - leaving the question "If you're starting to develop a brand-new application today - which technology choices will you make and what's the projected lifecycle?"

Some companies are already betting what your choice will be... or better, yet are asking their developers what they want next in packaged tools...