Re: Rumor... Talk of Opening WO at WWDC
Re: Rumor... Talk of Opening WO at WWDC
- Subject: Re: Rumor... Talk of Opening WO at WWDC
- From: "Robert Snyder" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:09:25 -0400
- Organization: Penn State World Campus
Gang,
I really do not see this happening. It was asked and answered at WWDC.
No. no. no.
Of course things can change--if CPUs can change, so can this.
But the Open Sourcing of WO is not in the cards.
Robert
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005, David Chaney wrote:
>Fyi,
>
>I would take this with a grain of salt coming from a rumor site, but
>it definitely seems intriguing:
>http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1135
>
>I personally think opensourcing WebObjects could really benefit Apple
>and WebObjects long term. It could also do a lot to unify a lot of
>the community projects going on like WOProject and Project Wonder.
>Currently, there is a serious void for something right now like
>WebObjects(HTML Applications, Java Client Applications, Direct To
>Suff, Enterprise Objects, etc.). The J2EE is too complex and
>expensive, .NET is too controlled by MS, and the Hypernate/Tapestry
>still aren't as complete as WO. The other options of Perl, Python,
>and/or PHP do not seem nearly as elegant solutions...
>
>It seems that the only thing really holding WebObjects back is Apple
>(too much control, too little marketing)... and this from an Apple
>diehard. Sure they might lose some hardware sales other development
>and deployment, but the goodwill, developer contributions, and
>overall growth of the product would more than make up for it.
>
>Anyway.. just my 2 cents,
>
>- David
>
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