While most companies are reporting lower than expected earnings in 2008, there are some bright spots. NetworkIP has had our best year ever, reflecting a growing adoption of the NetworkIP Jaduka “Intelligent” Platform for telephony, voice/data applications, and feature development.
The Wall Street Journal reports that while software purchases are expected to decline, three pockets of technology will grow: Software as a Service (SaaS), Mobile Productivity Applications, and Security solutions.
We agree. We’re seeing a large increase in the numbers and types of telephony and commerce applications running on the NetworkIP Jaduka “Intelligent” Platform. Adoption of our SaaS solutions and voice API is growing by about a million API calls a month. Our voice API opens [...]

So you’ve got codebases in Python, PHP, C and Java and an engineering culture that places a real premium on being able to throw everybody into a room and keep projects with lots of parts and lots of design decisions moving. But you’ve got engineers in Austin, Dallas and Phoenix, development partners in NY and SF, and at least one vendor in Dubai. How to have your rapid dev cycles and eat them too?
One of the best answers we’ve been able to conjure up for our own projects has been the notion of the standing project bridge. Conferencing wonks use the term bridge as a synonym for conference call. And we’ve coined the phrase project [...]