Web Development Culture

Had a great talk with a colleague recently where we were considering the differences between oldish school information systems client-server era development, and today's lighter weight web based approach.

Following are two columns comparing the approaches, what was interesting to me after compiling this list is that you can mask out one column or the other and each of them looks sound and sensible standing alone, its not till you can compare them that the difference stands out.

web-era           client-server-era

internet          intranet
decentralisation  centralised
comodisation      
standards         proprietary
open-cast         tunnel
risk              security
portability       efficiency
reuse             performance
social            contract/peer
chaos             governance
heterogeneous     homogenous
sharing           ownership
visibility        privacy
folksonomies      taxonomy
services          products/apps
mashups         
XML               databases/SQL
web               desktop
javascript        Java
decoupled         tightly coupled
people            enterprise
community         corporation
redeploy          reimpliment
mesh              hub
content           data
the network       the infrastructure
empower           regulate
rapid-deployment  controlled-deployment
continuous improvement   scheduled release
neutral           dependencies
syndication       replication
identities        identity
synergy           scalability
generalised       specialised
innovation        consolidation
logical           physical
own-your-data     manage-your-data
transform         export
participation     domination
personal          personalised

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