The thing classic and web business application developers must know about Silverlight and other RIA applications is that the applications will be judged by a different set of standards than current and legacy applications. They must first of all be beautiful. Beauty is the first step to immersion. Beauty for business applications moves beyond the classic grid and tabular displays to people interfaces. User interfaces are dying. If we want to coral the current information overload, if we want to move from providing data to providing almost intelligence than we must move from user interfaces to People Interfaces.
People Interfaces will be more expensive to create than past generation applications, especially with the first generations of design tools. They will be more difficult to manage the development of so they will initially have a lower on-time, on-budget delivery rate. Until these projects truly move beyond user interfaces they will be limited to playthings with no delivered value for the additional cost.
People Interfaces are going to be hard. We have yet to master the personal part of the IT / Business interface when dealing with data and now we will be trying to pre-process data into something with a deeper meaning. We can't do that unless we understand the meaning being sought.
Starting RIA's are the first steps on a very long road. We may not even take that road just yet. Which will the market favor more: mobility or richness?
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