What is possible in an open source leveraged world.
The title of this blog could have been a question, but I prefer it to be a heading.
We had a corridor conversation a few days ago, Mike and I, and I mentioned that I wanted him to think about how we might extend InfoCapture so that we can report Process Manager issues on a PDA, those processes to upload to the Claromentis server as soon as it is connected. A great many processes in certain industries start with PDA input of initial data, and then complex work flows need to take over. For example office surveys, certain types of audits.
Within the context of my chat, I was expecting some kind of possibly in 6 months, what version of Claromentis – series of discussions. The normal priority setting of what should make a Claromentis release, and what should miss out.
It is now a few days later and he has the application installed on his Nokia phone, with the developer now coding the mobile windows version.
We have never met the developer – Mike just put out the work on an open source developers recruitment platform, and it’s done. No fuss, no headache – minor investments and great functionality.
What an amazing leap in our software, from talented people unconstrained by any limitations.
The heading of this Blog could not have been a question – because it doesn’t have an answer.