Re: OT: OpenSource WebObjects...
Re: OT: OpenSource WebObjects...
- Subject: Re: OT: OpenSource WebObjects...
- From: arturo <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 18:28:20 -0500
----- Original Message ----- > On Jan 16, 2004, at 17:10, Ian McDougall
wrote:
>
> > I can think of a good reason why Apple won't open source WO.
> >
> > Apple is not driven by software, it makes it's money on the hardware.
Consider one other factor. NeXT was big in the enterprise. I'm not sure
I know why it got displaced by Windows. Probably some combination
of cost and Windows getting good enough.
But now Apple is making tentative gestures at the enterprise market.
Its XServe is very cost effective and the XRaid is extremely so.
And lookee here, the Xserve (OSX Server) just happens to include
a "free" WO deployment license.
Apple may be keeping WO as a deal clincher in the entreprise space.
After all, for most purposes, WO is more effective than J2EE and literally
orders of magnitude cheaper.
So, look at WO as a way to sell XServes and does it make more sense?
I don't know, it could all just be one big accident. Thoughts?
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