In this first episode of RIA Weekly, Ryan Stewart, Charles Lowell, and I talk about a wide swath of topics:

• Ryan asks Charles what how his company, The Front Side decided how "dressed up" their UIs should be. Charles says the major limit is time and skill.
• We talk about James Ward's Flex sightings at Oracle OpenWorld (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7), which moves into Flex in enterprise development
• I ask Ryan about the current state of Silverlight and how much video plays into it.
• We also talk about the Chumby I recently got and how that fits into the idea of RIAs.

There're probably some things I missed, but that's the gist of it.

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In this episode I talk again (see episode #42) with ESM blogger John Willis. We talk about open source in IT management, but more than that, we talk about possible ways the data center landscape could change ("Infrastructure 2.0," if you will): namely, Hardware-as-a-Service, which essentially means hosting your stuff behind a URL instead of on-premise (you, know, more or less). Whatever it may actually mean, it seems all this *aaS stuff is a big change waiting to happen when it comes to the way IT management is done.

For example, if a new business opened up and ran completely off URLs, what role would existing IT management thinking and vendors have? Not much, it seems.

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