Re: Any WWDC News
Re: Any WWDC News
- Subject: Re: Any WWDC News
- From: Marek Wawrzyczny <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 15:23:37 +1000
On 02/07/2004, at 06:30, Trae Nickelson wrote:
Mike's exactly right. It's the old "WebObjects isn't going anywhere"
argument. To the newly initiated, do go search through the archives
at the Omni group mailing lists and see just how long some of us have
been beating our head against the same wall. See how little has
changed. See how insane we have all been for the last several years.
See a few of the names go missing in some of the later posts as they
realized something the rest of us had not. Consider as you read the
numerous posts of frustration and pleading, that someone at Apple has
surely read them too. Consider how they have smugly, blatantly
ignored their customer base. See for yourself that WebObjects is
truly "not going anywhere." And then decide whether YOU are "not
going anywhere" with them.
Thanks Mike. No disrespect intended. We all have different boiling
points.
Hi,
Yes, this discussion is a repeat of the same discussion from last year,
and as archives prove the years before that.
Am I worried about whether the end of WO is near? No, I am sure it will
exist for many years to come. Is the company I work for going to use
it? Yes, it's a fabulous framework to use. Will I personally expand my
knowledge of WO? No.
Why?
It becomes more and more apparent that WO development is going to be a
OS X only affair (with the exception of Open Source alternatives).
Deployment? Well, probably not but who knows? Perhaps Tom Wotecki is
right about Apple hoping to make it a Server OS only product someday,
but that's pure speculation.
Is Apple going to lose out on my attitude? Hack yes...
I am not an Apple fanatic. I was a Microsoft user, and I appreciate OS
X as being the best OS on the market and I think WO is fantastic, but
unless I see a career within the technology, I am not personally
investing my time or money in it. There are other technologies, more
popular and far more active and far more profitable if you make a
career out of them. At the end of the day I have to pay bills somehow
and if more people feel like I do, then someday not even Apple will
find talented WO developers to work for them.
So Apple, market the technology, even a little. Tell us what's going to
happen so we don't waste our time developing a solution to a problem
that you magically turn around and implement in the next version of WO.
At the end of the day, we may be interdependent on each other but if
things turn too sour I can throw in the towel and move on, you as a
company need people like us to survive.
Marek Wawrzyczny
software engineer
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