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Apple WebObjects For PC

  • Subject: Apple WebObjects For PC
  • From: "Jonathan Fleming" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 18:48:53 +0000
It's been a while since I've had a beef at Apple for one thing or another, but I do sincerly hope an Apple WebObjects technician, developer, guru or whatever you'd like to term yourselves, actually do pick this up and respond to it.

I have a very simple question indeed, and non so hard that you can not answer. I have a Mac which I love dearly and could not do without in the bank of computers I utilise for development, however, the mere nature of what we all do with regards to the world wide web predominetly requires a great deal of checking from a PC type platform, therefore I say (in my case) I may as well develop on a PC type platform. For me it's the scurge of all Apple lovers, Windows, I'm afraid. I use this patform because a Mac can convert PC objects into it's BIG ENDIAN state whereas Mac objects can not be converted to a PC in it's LITTLE ENDIAN state.

This isn't the only reason I develop on a PC, I'm forced to by the hosting company I use, it's generally a case of pricing - I don't know about now as technology moves on so fast, but I'm talking as if this were a few years ago... - using PC or Unix servers is offered far cheaper than that of a G4 or G5 machine sitting in a data centre. Furthermore, server administrators are usally Unix trained and look at a Mac with some sort of contempt so don't want to know about administering it, they'd rather leave the whole process up to you, configuring, processing, administering, everything... if it breakes down they'll reboot it and that's about it, at least that's how I've experienced it. Oh don't get me wrong, I know you can develop on a Mac and deploy on a Solaris (Unix type) or Windows platform, but there are certain things a Mac does that a PC just can't seem to get it's head around and there lies a tiny little problem that can give the illusion of an elevated crisis on a PC or a PC based browser - again even the Mac and PC browsers of the same model such as Internet Explorer are different.

Anyhow, that's not the real issue, what I'd like to know is when is Apple actually going to update the PC version of WebObjects Applications like the EOModeller App, more importantly the ProjectBuilder App, generally the whole of the PC based version of WebObjects... can I get and answer to this? PLEASE... It's been asked enough times without answer. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE let us know.

Forgive me if I've gone on, waffled about nonsense or anything of the like, I just want to know.

Yours faithfully
Jonathan Fleming
(WebObjects Developer(PC), Avid Mac Lover(still on a G4) and ill-fated Windows User

Ps.
If Apple hadn't got themselves into the finacial trouble they did all those years ago when Bill Gates bought into Steve Jobs' company to save it and thus getting his hands on the formula that drove the Apple Mac file sytem, Windows '95' would not be here nor any of the subsequent Windows systems and Apple could have had a real shot at cornering the market such as Gates did with Windows.
What a difference that would have made in making a difference.
...It all started with an Apple
PLEASE REPLY...

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