Thinktecture is online

Finally Ingo Rammer's, Christian Weyer's, Christian Nagel's and Ralf Westphal's opened the curtain on Thinktecture.

The site is nice, but it's a bit early to see what they want to achieve. It's looking like a mix up of commercial venture with some community blogging.

Not sure if this is right, but I am interested to see how they are going to sell their services and in the same time give the material their clients paid for ?

Well, anyway good luck guys.

 

4 Comments

  • What they want to achieve? They're consultants, they want to what consultants do - get paid a lot of money to do nothing (remember that Fedex commercial?). All I can say is good for everybody who can pull that off.

  • Paschal: Thanks!



    Jerry: ;-)



    -Ingo

  • If consultants were superfluous per se, so would be training companies and custom software development shops and travel agencies etc.



    Anybody can book his/her travels online today. Anybody can sit down with notepad and the .NET Fx and programm software. Anybody can read a book on .NET Fx programming.



    But still those services are a good thing. Because they make these tasks easier or take the burden of your shoulder alltogether.



    One thing, though, only one service can offer: remove system blindness. Regardless how good you´re as a programmer, you inevitably suffer from system blindness when you´re immersing yourself in developing the next application.



    And this is what thinktecture and consulting is about: Help to remove the inherent system blindness. (And by doing so, ideally also transfer knowledge.)

  • Training companies deliver something - they teach you skills you don't have. Custom software development builds software. But consultants don't do anything but say how things should be done.



    If you as a developer ignore the environment your app is going to be used in (you're system blind in your speak) you're not a very good developer. How can you write an app if you do not know (willingly or not) in what context it's going to be used? Are you just writing what you think should be done without knowing what really needs to be done? As I said, if you're that ignorant and need to hire a consulting company to realize that - good for the consultants. Unless of course Thinktecture is going to be a custom SW house, then there's a product delivered. But with consulting companies as I know them I fail to see the point.

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