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Kaleidoscopio writes: At my company we have severall intranet applications.
The problem, is that most of them are cloned from a 12 year old ASP application, so basically we keep the same code and layout and adapt as well as we can.
We have been trying for years to change things, but my boss insists that we recycle since its faster than developing something new.
Our main problem at this point is that the code is pretty much garbage after years of changes by severall people and while developing something new is faster, maintenance of the old applications is nightmarish.
We decided to create in our own time, a new framework from which we can develop new applications for our Intranet, if we suceed we may finally enter the 21st century.
Problem is, what to build it on?
Our external supplier suggests Silverlight/Moonlight and .Net, our Java expert wants to build it all in Java while one of our IT guys wants a PHP/MySql solution.
What does the Slashdot crowd suggest?
Personally I'll go with anything as long as it will run in Linux and Windows clients (Server could be Unix or Windows) and will hopefully be around in 10 years time.
The problem, is that most of them are cloned from a 12 year old ASP application, so basically we keep the same code and layout and adapt as well as we can.
We have been trying for years to change things, but my boss insists that we recycle since its faster than developing something new.
Our main problem at this point is that the code is pretty much garbage after years of changes by severall people and while developing something new is faster, maintenance of the old applications is nightmarish.
We decided to create in our own time, a new framework from which we can develop new applications for our Intranet, if we suceed we may finally enter the 21st century.
Problem is, what to build it on?
Our external supplier suggests Silverlight/Moonlight and
What does the Slashdot crowd suggest?
Personally I'll go with anything as long as it will run in Linux and Windows clients (Server could be Unix or Windows) and will hopefully be around in 10 years time.