http://ayende.comAyende @ RahienCopyright (C) Ayende Rahien 2004 - 2021 (c) 202660Michael, Please check my previous post about MS CRM. It goes into great details about why it fails in all of this accounts. http://ayende.com/2851/thinking-about-enterprise-platform-constraints#comment8http://ayende.com/2851/thinking-about-enterprise-platform-constraints#comment8Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:50:04 GMTHate to sound like a MS CRM fanboy, but I'd argue that except perhaps for the auditability-department, MS CRM scores very good marks on all points mentioned in the original post... http://ayende.com/2851/thinking-about-enterprise-platform-constraints#comment7http://ayende.com/2851/thinking-about-enterprise-platform-constraints#comment7Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:43:40 GMT* Drag-n-drop http://ayende.com/2851/thinking-about-enterprise-platform-constraints#comment6http://ayende.com/2851/thinking-about-enterprise-platform-constraints#comment6Tue, 09 Oct 2007 07:47:49 GMT* Easy Backup/Restore process * Customizable - think about the layout http://ayende.com/2851/thinking-about-enterprise-platform-constraints#comment5http://ayende.com/2851/thinking-about-enterprise-platform-constraints#comment5Tue, 09 Oct 2007 05:05:02 GMTThis might fall somewhere under "IT Friendly": * Easily Migratable Data/Plugins/Code needs to be easily migratable/promotable from Development to Test to Production (or whatever staging setup an organization has). * Easily Comparable I know my Production and Test environment are exactly the same (except for the data)... aren't they? DLL Versions? Script Source Code * Exportable/Importable I'll back it up to a file, import it onto a new server. Change a few settings like hostname and connection strings and have a clone site for whatever nefarious purposes. * Xcopy Deployable Well, as much as possible anyway :-) http://ayende.com/2851/thinking-about-enterprise-platform-constraints#comment4http://ayende.com/2851/thinking-about-enterprise-platform-constraints#comment4Tue, 09 Oct 2007 01:15:55 GMTSo when does Iteration #1 start? http://ayende.com/2851/thinking-about-enterprise-platform-constraints#comment3http://ayende.com/2851/thinking-about-enterprise-platform-constraints#comment3Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:12:41 GMTSecure - absolutely. Integration points - yes. Platform independent - not a concern I am worried about. If they would really like it, they can run it on Mono. Hostable is not really key, but several instances per machines is critical to allow a developer to work on more than a single app at a time http://ayende.com/2851/thinking-about-enterprise-platform-constraints#comment2http://ayende.com/2851/thinking-about-enterprise-platform-constraints#comment2Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:17:38 GMTHere's some more: * Secure - Duh. * Open/Allows-for-Integration - provides services to input and extract data both in small and large chunks. Side bonus: This would allow for some easier testing too! * Platform independent (sort of) - Runs on multiple DB's. Maybe runs on multiple OSes (some Fortune 500's have Unix fetishes) * Hostable (optionally) - can be run in a datacenter, can have multiple instances on a single machine securely http://ayende.com/2851/thinking-about-enterprise-platform-constraints#comment1http://ayende.com/2851/thinking-about-enterprise-platform-constraints#comment1Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:10:12 GMT