Re: WebObjects 5.3
Re: WebObjects 5.3
- Subject: Re: WebObjects 5.3
- From: Sacha Mallais <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 15:30:34 -0700
On Jun 7, 2005, at 3:14 PM, email@hidden wrote:
This is a really big deal for us; if we can only deploy on OS X
then we can't use WO at all. One of the things that attracted us
to it was the platform-independence. I can understand why it would
be attractive to Apple to give that up, as most of their other
software products are OS X only, but this seems like a move
designed, intentionally or not, to cut WO adoption off at the
knees. It's probably meant to boost purchases of XServes and
reduce their support burden, but those of us who have to sell this
to clients know that "oh, by the way you have to purchase and
support a totally new kind of server" isn't going to cut it. The
purchases of XServes come *after* the WO app is already running
successfully on whatever they already had in-house and everyone is
impressed by how Totally Cool Apple products are.
I personally have no problem with buying a copy of OS X Server and
sticking it on a shelf for each "other OS" installation I do, but
some clients get very antsy about running unsupported
configurations so even that is really not a great solution.
If there is an opportunity to give feedback to the WO team, I hope
someone is able to make this point to them as forcefully as
possible (after, of course, thanking them profusely for releasing
5.3).
I agree wholeheartedly that this is a big step backwards for WO
(although it has been happening slowly for the last several years --
I guess this year is just the final death knell of cross platform
support). Getting WO Developer for free is nice, but it's not the
developers that need convincing, it's the people with the purchasing
power.
I guess the move from Objective-C to Java was really designed to
allow us WO programmers an exit strategy. :-(
sacha
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