Apple & Cocoa in the Enterprise?
Apple & Cocoa in the Enterprise?
- Subject: Apple & Cocoa in the Enterprise?
- From: Reno Marioni <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 00:58:14 -0800 (PST)
Hi,
This question is probably more geared towards someone in Apple (market
development?). It appears from reading this thread that there are some
defficiencies and limitations in Cocoa that are essential requirements
for developing and deploying applications within Enterprise clients.
Cocoa is going to appeal to several types of developers mainly consumer
apps, ISVs, tools and framework developers and inhouse custom
application development. In the old NeXTSTEP days, enterprise clients
like Financial, Intelligence and other enterprise markets bought
OpenStep for its rapidly ability to assemble apps quickly.
With Cocoa lacking a coherent (Objective C) Database access solution
akin to EOF for Web (formerly DBKit) or the ability to developed
"distributed" apps akin to Sun's RMI (I have not seen much mention of
PDO or if it is use or Corba IDL ObjC), what are Apple's plans within
the targeting the Enterprise customers. I have not heard or read about
Apple's plans in the Enterprise. (Sun was
workign with NeXT in the early 1990's).
I think with Bud Tribble, who used to work at Sun, will have an
experienced hand at this. For 3 tier distributed apps, there
appears to be a wall back at the third tier. (I've seen some clever
solutions posted here though)
Anyone from Apple care to comment?
Reno
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