Re: Cocoa/EOF for non-enterprise apps Re: proof of cocoa
Re: Cocoa/EOF for non-enterprise apps Re: proof of cocoa
- Subject: Re: Cocoa/EOF for non-enterprise apps Re: proof of cocoa
- From: Scott Anguish <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 01:01:11 -0400
On Wednesday, June 13, 2001, at 06:10 PM, Bill Bumgarner wrote:
Am I happy about first class EOF/ObjC suport going away?
Not particularly, but I understand that it is a reality above and
beyond something that Apple can totally control.
I don't agree. And further, Apple's marketing people made
commitments publicly that these would appear on OS X. And they have not.
That isn't a defendable action.
I also understand that for my needs-- and for the needs of a very large
part, if not most, of the community-- the chosen direction is not only
workable, is actually quite pleasant to work within.
You don't write horizontal apps Bill. I know of a half-dozen
vendors who have products near ready to go, and are now screwed
completely because Apple lied.
Apple can't control the database vendors; as such, there is no
guarantee that there will ever be first class native client libraries
on OS X.
Apple did have an EO Adaptor that did JDBC (well, not officially,
but we all know about it).. this would cover off the needs of the SOHO
developer.
As has been said, there is more to the database world than Sybase
and Oracle.
I have a lot more to say on this subject, but I'm not sure anyone
has made it this far and I have to get some real work done [in Java
against WO 4.5.1, at the moment... and a bit of 5.0 ...and a bit of
Java/Cocoa/EO. All meeting or exceeding requirements, thank you :-) ].
And none in the non-vertical plane I'd guess.