Martin Heller
Contributing Writer

Danny Sabbah on Business Users as Programmers

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Nov 17, 20071 min

In an interview with Chris Kanaracus of IDG News Service, Danny Sabbah of IBM Rational (whom I interviewed earlier this year) said he has little use for a recent trend: Tools and platforms that supposedly make it easy for business users to do some development. "I don't believe any of that stuff," he said. "I've never met a business user that can use any type of professional development tool. Period." Business us

In an interview with Chris Kanaracus of IDG News Service, Danny Sabbah of IBM Rational (whom I interviewed earlier this year) said he has little use for a recent trend: Tools and platforms that supposedly make it easy for business users to do some development.

“I don’t believe any of that stuff,” he said. “I’ve never met a business user that can use any type of professional development tool. Period.” Business users are better off working within more familiar environments, such as spreadsheets and word processing programs, he said.

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I wonder what the Microsoft Popfly people and other groups working on end-user and non-professional programming tools have to say about that.

Martin Heller

Martin Heller is a contributing writer at InfoWorld. Formerly a web and Windows programming consultant, he developed databases, software, and websites from his office in Andover, Massachusetts, from 1986 to 2010. From 2010 to August of 2012, Martin was vice president of technology and education at Alpha Software. From March 2013 to January 2014, he was chairman of Tubifi, maker of a cloud-based video editor, having previously served as CEO.

Martin is the author or co-author of nearly a dozen PC software packages and half a dozen Web applications. He is also the author of several books on Windows programming. As a consultant, Martin has worked with companies of all sizes to design, develop, improve, and/or debug Windows, web, and database applications, and has performed strategic business consulting for high-tech corporations ranging from tiny to Fortune 100 and from local to multinational.

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