Re: Why Cocoa (say vs Carbon)
Re: Why Cocoa (say vs Carbon)
- Subject: Re: Why Cocoa (say vs Carbon)
- From: Jeff LaMarche <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 08:53:16 -0500
On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at 09:30 PM, Andy Satori wrote:
The other thing the is missing is a data access model. A framework to
wrap the fancy ODBC Manager in Jaguar, with some basic ODBC drivers
would be a perfect start. Leverage Apple software, and provide a
framework to the ODBC datasources and an ODBC driver for FileMaker, or
the WebObjects supplied OpenBase.
Sounds like you're describing EOF. Unfortunately, it's only available
for Cocoa if you've got WebObjects, something that a great many of us
have griped about in the past.
And for the sake of really grabbing developer mindshare? drop the
price of WebObjects, or bundle it ala IIS and .NET. I've spent the
past year doing C#.NET work in a Fortune 1000 shop, and Cocoa &
WebObjects flat kill it for function and form, but being the only Mac
user in the shop ( that isn't a graphic artist in the
monkeying^H^H^H^H^H^H marketing department ), I'm kinda outvoted. But
a platform that offers world class tools (PB/IB/WO are damned close)
for a sub $600 / machine pop is an awfully sexy sale.
On the contrary, WO's price is extremely competitive; the price is not
what's holding WO back - Apple's lack of marketing is, as well as the
perception of many that products made by Apple have no place in the
Enterprise. I do agree that PB could use some enhancements, but WO can
compete on it's merits, it just usually doesn't get a chance to even be
considered.
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