Bungee Connect: What I learned about platform evaluations
Posted by tibbetts Sun, 13 Jan 2008 02:50:13 GMT
Catching up on email this Saturday, I got the opportunity to take a survey about my experience evaluating Bungee Connect. Evaluating bungee connect has been something that has popped onto my radar several times. They purport to be an application platform for web applications. They have their own language, their own ui toolkit, their own (browser-based) IDE, and their own code library and source control system. In my day job I create and sell a novel application platform (for streaming applications), so I like to look at new platforms on many levels. I signed up, and was shortly invited into the bungee beta.
Suffice to say the evaluation didn't go well for me. It isn't clear that there were any problems with the product. But I kept getting blocked by other things in the evaluation. I had trouble logging in. Trouble figuring out their programming paradigm. Trouble deciding what the tool is good for. And more.
After taking their survey, I decided to capture for myself what I learned about the my own bungee connect evaluation process.
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