Picking a Software Platform 4: Bringing it Home

Last Updated on Thursday, 1 December 2005 04:29 Written by Steve Thursday, 17 November 2005 08:45

When I started here in June, I was tasked with picking a software platform for database implementations. Fairly early, I convened a bunch of staff here who had made platform decisions in the past, and picked their brains. It was a very fruitful, and helped us to identify the discrete thoughts that go through our minds when picking a software platform. This is Part 4 of a series of posts dedicated to this topic. (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3).

Well, if you read any of that, you realize that it’s a pretty analytical process (yawn). However technical, application platform selection is an important process for us–our work, the well being of our customers, and the strength of the environmental movement depends upon on it. The Guiding Principles, rooted in our constraints and our mission, help us make sound choices. We believe that by choosing wisely, we can be of service to the environmental movement while serving our customers’ pressing short-term needs. Application platform selection may seem a mundane task, but we believe it shapes the impact we can have with our customers, and through them, the overall ability of the movement to affect change for the better.

OK, I’m glad I got that off my chest!

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