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: Deirdre Saoirse Moen <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 10:16:22 -0700
Is it really so difficult for you to understand that there is life
behind Oracle & Sybase? We all know your technical knowledge, but
your inability to understand the world of horizontal desktop
oriented markets is really pathetic!
Yes. Many of us made our bread and butter on vertical market apps for
the desktop. Things that HAD to be relational databases (so FileMaker
wasn't an option) but that Oracle and Sybase were overkill for.
Things that stuff like Faircom, Empress and so on are perfect for.
Just an example of one of our projects (put on hold because Apple's
decision to kill EOF/ObjC) - a CBT Editor/Player. I would like to
sell it with cheap embedded database (FrontBase is an obvious choice
for us).
To me, an embedded database means Faircom or the equivalent.
And I'm not going to switch to Java, because it is just too
expensive for me - it reduces the productivity of my developers, we
have to throw away sources written and maintained for years, and go
to the market later and sell our product for more money in order to
cover the reduced productivity of the team. These are all reasons
that matter a lot - all of them can lead to a success or failure of
a product.
Exactly.
I'm with you if you are talking about consultancy web-centric
projects where buzzwords matter more then efficiency - the client
will pay anyway (or file for chapter 11), but please try to
understand that this is vertical market, and a shrinking one.
Let's also not forget that there are a lot of unemployed web
developers right now....
--
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