I recently watched a great webcast by Rich Dudley in which Rich made some very interesting points about what Gartner Research calls “Citizen Developers”. I was immediately intrigued by this Gartner information so I dug a little deeper into this citizen developer thing, and here is what I found…
According to Gartner, “Citizen developers will be building at least a quarter of new business applications by 2014…”. That, according to the report titled “Citizen Developers Are Poised to Grow”.
Represented by about 6 million information workers, these “latent” application developers make up that same Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch target market.
Very interesting, indeed!
Timeless Edge
Thanks, Paul! I lifted those stats from Jay Schmelzer's great keynote at St. Louis Day of .NET, which was the "community release" for LightSwitch. I have some notes from Jay's talk at http://c1.ms/4k. The slides for the webcast you mentioned can be found at http://c1.ms/2y, in case anyone is interested.