Inquiry Spotlight: Rich Internet Applications, Q3 2008

Since January 2008, Forrester's application development and program management team has fielded approximately 822 inquiries from application development professionals on various topics. Of those inquiries, nearly 10% concerned Web 2.0 development best practices and core Web technologies such as Web services, XML, and server-side frameworks. But by far, application developers' main focus regarding Web2.0 is rich Internet applications (RIAs). As RIA adoption has grown over the past two years, application development professionals' questions have shifted away from basic topics — for example, the usefulness of RIAs as a whole — and toward more specific subjects including the security, accessibility, and suitability of different frameworks to different application development scenarios. If your firm hasn't yet addressed these issues, then now is the perfect time to find the answer.