Never mind the argument whether India is a developing nation or a developed nation, the fact is that we are the number one developer nation, said Professor S Sadagopan of the International Institute of Information Technology here amidst rousing cheers from code-crunchers.
He was addressing around 700 software developers at the IBM Rational conference in Bangalore.
The theme of the conference this year is Software in Concert, and quite fittingly speakers at the conference were ushered on to the stage to the sound of rock guitar riffs.
Sadagopan urged developers to build programs that last long. Tracing the changes in the industry from old programming languages from Fortran and Pascal, to todays frameworks, he said that software has to evolve according to the changes in the IT world.
We are moving from products to productized services and from computers to appliances. The ability to program software for a gamut of devices has not happened yet, he said.The Rational user conference also saw the launch of the latest version of the software in India. Developers got a sneak peek at what they could expect from the new release- support for global distributed development; SoA governance and regulatory and internal compliance features. Version 7 allows for componentization which means you can install optional installable features and specific components for targeted users, said Martin Nally, CTO, Rational Software.
He also gave a small preview of the features of the next release, which promises to offer a collaborative platform. As a precursor to Version 8, the company has announced what it calls its Jazz initiative, a collaborative platform that would leverage on Internet based technologies such as blogs, Wikis, RSS feeds and blogs, thus enabling real-time development platforms.
Rational plans to throw open core components of the work on Jazz to the developer community.
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