Mr. Scally: Rogue Wave was founded in 1989 and is in the business of providing development tools for Internet and e-commerce applications. Our customer base is the Fortune 2000. We are installed in about 80% of the Fortune 2000. Financial and Telco represent about 50% of our business and we are actively moving into new markets.
TWST: What are the most significant trends, developments, changes that
you anticipate in your sectors of the market over the next several
years?
Mr. Scally: First, we believe that web-based applications have become
so prevalent that they're influencing the way users expect all
applications to behave. Second, we think that these applications must be
scaleable and interact with existing legacy systems. And third, these
applications need to interact in a heterogeneous environment, which will
consist of Microsoft and UNIX platforms. Companies developing and
deploying new applications need to make sure that they can meet the
aggressive expectations, but still deliver scaleable applications that
will interact with legacy systems and even systems not yet determined,
and they have to do this on schedule. Increasingly, companies are
turning to component-based programming to help them efficiently build
these flexible and scaleable applications for the Internet. As
component-based programming goes mainstream, companies aren't just
looking for individual components. Rather, they are looking for families
of components and a unifying infrastructure to tie everything together.
No single component model, IDE or hardware platform has won the game.
COM, CORBA, Enterprise Java Beans, C++, Java, Visual Basic, Visual C++,
UNIX, Windows are all popular, they are all in everybody's requirements,
and widely used by developers. But often, developers need to mix and
match components from different systems and different object models to
develop an application. So they're going to need the best set of
components for a particular application, and more importantly they need
to make sure they develop it right from the start. Rogue Wave provides
standard components to help people integrate disparate systems.
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