Windows Azure services - First impressions
I have been looking at the PDC cast of Windows Azure and all I can say is wow.
At first i thought it was just another cloud but its a new generation compared to other offerings and most important its designed to win corporates. Integrating with current enterprise systems in a secure manner will be the key.
Will it succeed - certainly ( barring some outage disasters which will hurt them bad) . However it wont succeed just for Web 2.0 ( of which i am sceptical in the long term) but think of corporate laptops ,PDAs , small offices...
Are projects getting more successful
Im curious at the increase rate of sucess in a number of surveys such as the later CHAOS surveys. Looking in the detail however it appears that projects after peaking in 2000 the amount of time overrun and the amount of features completed have dropped dramatically in the vast majority of projects. Not sure what it means but to me it DOESNT mean software development is getting better if features are getting dropped and there are increasing time blow outs.
Things that come to mind
Standards for success and projects have increasing amounts of over estimation to prevent...