By Andy McCue, 29 June 2004 16:05
NEWS A lack of skilled developers and fears of complexity are slowing the take-up of Microsoft's .Net platform in businesses, according to new research.
All of the firms surveyed said they were looking to deploy .Net but more than three-quarters (76 per cent) said their plans are being hampered by a lack of relevant expertise.
The global research, which was commissioned by development tools company Borland, questioned 145 senior professional software developers and architects. Most were from small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) but a fifth were from large corporations.
Those from large firms said they fear .Net is a more complex design environment than Microsoft claims, despite talk of XML-based integration and component-based development. Not surprisingly, the ability of .Net to integrate and interoperate with existing IT environments came second in the concerns of large companies.
Small and medium-sized organisations (SMEs) are particularly concerned about the management of increasingly distributed and sophisticated .Net applications in combination with the .Net skills shortage.
The research also shows organisations are planning a range of .Net deployments from large company-wide applications for internal integration purposes to small stand-alone applications and external integration
Nigel Brown, European VP at Borland, said in a statement: "All the evidence from this research indicates that .Net has been a victim of its own success as demand for the technology outstrips the supply of qualified labour to implement it."
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