EnterpriseTenFold: Too good to be true?

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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 development platforms. 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.

It's fair to say that there is merit in Walker's pedigree and claims, but as yet no extensive base of do-it-yourself application builders can provide validation. I don't believe that Walker has been tilting at windmills over the last 12 years. TenFold has many of the attributes that business and technology people have outlined as desirable in the next phase of application development--making computer programming accessible to mere mortals, as well as more reliable, interoperable and less costly. If EnterpriseTenFold had elements of an open source project or was delivered behind the marketing budget of a larger software company, it would get more attention. For now, TenFold needs to prove that it has a sustainable business or to sell the company to one that has the resources to evangelize and further develop the technology and business model. Otherwise, TenFold will be just a footnote in the history of computing.