There are some times that i feel IBM plays around with new tech or projects just for the hell of it. one of those times is Blue Spruce. Called “Browser Based Application Platform†or as i like to call it: “lets see if we can make Ajax Web Tech be RIA Web Tech and Cloud Computing Techâ€. but the the truth is that IBM must choose one thing for this to be. I think it is more in line with Cloud Computing and this could be a way for IBM to look on how to compete with Windows Azure and Amazon Web Services. It may be actually something that could also be used along with Amazon so it is more of coming up with something against Windows Azure. That is because i just don`t see how this would be able to compete in RIA Web terms against Adobe, Microsoft or even Sun at this point unless Google went out of its way and implemented this tech, taking it to heart. The worst is that it just a 5 month old IBM Project and that it is at least 7 months away of being fit enough to actually use beyond IBM. that means that is it ever comes out it will find itself against a Mature Flash 10, Silverlight 2, Flex 3.0 and even JavaFX 1.0 to compete with if its indeed seeing itself as a RIA web tech. good luck with that.
That said. the concepts are interesting and their mere purpose could be to generate re-use of them into other tech. In terms of Widgets it is interesting because this would the way to get more powerful Mashlets that can interact together in a page as if they were developed equally and by the same team.
For more on Blue Spruce check Richard MacManus Blog Post:
