CSLA Adoption Metrics / Trends

tsaltd posted on Saturday, September 29, 2007

Rocky -

Thanks for Rebutting some questions about CSLA .NET  - it's a terriffic set of info for assisting developers and project leads to make the CSLA case to stakeholders and technology planners.

Now can you share some info on adoption trends ??

Extracting activity from your website would be a good start.

New Logins created on the forum... hits on your Blog and the Forums ??

Book/e-book sales ??

Job Board posts ???

Adoption by region would be interesting, too of course.

Any other ideas from members ??

Steve

 

DesNolan replied on Saturday, September 29, 2007

Good luck with all this, how many if us haven't been down this road before. I've tried pitching the idea of doing new development in .NET with CSLA to a company I've been consulting with for the last couple of years unsuccessfully. Basically, in response to their request for a better way to do things. However, it turned out, it was just talk, the owner and managers aren't risk takers. Especially, as the company is making money the way it does things now, and nobody wants to rock the boat. Worse the other developers who are currently using an old version of an out of favor programming lanaguage, are worried about such a move, as that would remove their unique usefulness, so they offered no support.

My point. It sounds from the questions and position you interviews had, that they are not looking for something else, and are not open to CSLA. I came to this realization myself the hard way with my client (and not happily). But since doing so, I looked for other direction. And now have an offshore company working for me on one of my own product ideas using CSLA. And if all goes well, in 12 months I can start selling it and I can move on and spend all my time working with CSLA.

Bottomline, if your company is open to cosnidering CSLA carry on gathering evidence, but if its not, put your head down and carrying on developing with it as long as you can, its a great product, and if you get a few applications done, then you may just get to keep using it to maintain those applications.

Cheer,

Des