If we have learned anything over the years, it’s that new software applications – especially innovative ones – rarely evolve effectively from blueprints. Secondly, is the recognition that requirements and design may be the halfway point in the number of words (e.g. requirements, design, code and test) however, they do not represent the halfway point in any traditional software development lifecycle. 25%? Maybe. 10% More likely.
Someone from Oracle might want to straighten me out on this, but it just doesn’t appear to add up.
The rest of the article goes on to discuss how they are going to just pull functionality from their numerous currently released products and put them into Fusion – just a simple matter of putting the puzzle together. I’m not buying it.