| Apple as a company is not focused on WebObjects as a main line of business. Just look at Apple's financials
<Quote>From Macrumors of Apple Financials this past quarter Mac business 50% of quarterly revenue. ... - 1,112,000 Macs sold during March; $1.572 Billion in Revenue. - 614,000 Desktop Macs ($833 million revenue) - 498,000 Portable Macs ($739 million revenue)
Music business 50% of quarterly revenue <End Quote>
and Ask
How much of the Mac hardware sales were a result of WebObjects? Not very much... Since every other person here talks about developing WebObjects on a PC with Eclipse.
How much of the Music sales were a result of WebObjects? Not very much...
How much of the Hardware sales went through an WebObjects application? Apple online store is WebObjects How much of the Music sales went through an WebObjects application? iTunes music store is WebObjects How much of your Apple Developer's connection goes through an WebObjects application? The rest of .Mac, etc. etc.
How many of these production applications are on 5.3.1? Probably not yet.
If you were in charge of Apple marketing, How many marketing dollars would you spend on WebObjects to explain these things to the industry? I believe Apple has viewed WebObjects as a strategic weapon for its own internal application ever since the NeXT acquisition. Whether we use it or not really doesn't matter to Apple.
Don't feel bad that Apple Europe doesn't say too much about WebObjects. Apple America's doesn't either.
Paul
From: "L. Caballero" <email@hidden> Date: April 23, 2006 2:06:58 PM EDT To: WebObjects List <email@hidden> Subject: Re: OT: Is used WO 5.3.1 in production (deployment)?
Hi Ken,
The question is not, if it is dead, is not that what it considers, is to know if 5.3.,1 are being used.
And we are not requesting advice on what we must do, but by the lack of information in Spain, and Europe, somewhere I must ask. We are accustomed (in Spain) to have greater support of Oracle, Microsoft, or Sun. But one is not to discuss that, so that I already understand that Apple the USA has more support, formation etc. that in Apple Europe.
Please it did not want to raise a discussion, only one asks on a version.
A discussion of this type surely would not propose it in an Apple mail list, is not correct.
Thanks for your time.
L. Caballero
El 23/04/2006, a las 18:26, Ken Anderson escribió:
The only thing that bothers me personally is that I would rather not have other people reading this list think WO is dying. It really isn't, and Apple pretty much said so by integrating it into their standard development platform. By doing that, they're voicing their support for the long term (in my opinion). It takes a lot more to kill a part of your development environment than a standalone product.
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