April 30th, 2005
EnterpriseTenFold: Too good to be true?
Jeffrey Walker makes some seemingly outrageous claims. The iconoclastic founder and CTO of TenFold asserts that business users can build high-end enterprise applications ten times faster with his application development platform than using other tools. A salesforce.com-like CRM application can be created in "less than the time it takes to watch a movie," according the company’s marketing literature. In my column on ZDNet, I look into the supposed wonders of TenFold’s software, and find that there is some merit in Walker’s claims…
Dan Farber, editor-in-chief of CNET News.com, has more than 20 years of experience as an editor and journalist covering technology. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
