Re: WOBuilder Replacement
Re: WOBuilder Replacement
- Subject: Re: WOBuilder Replacement
- From: "Jerry W. Walker" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 06:34:03 -0400
Although $500 might be a fair reward for such a tool, I truly doubt
that enough parties would pay it to cover Chuck's and Mike's estimates.
I think that there are few on this list who individually, or whose
companies, would pony up $500 per developer head for an undeveloped
piece of software. That would mean that either some one or two
companies underwrites the development, or the developers work for
about a year on no pay until they have a product to market, then they
might get paid, but only after people have taken the time to download
and test the resulting product and found it worthy. That latter
activity can take a few months for many in the community.
Once they have the new WOBuilder in hand, how many of them will hold
the old WOBuilder in the other hand and say, "Hmmm... $500 for this
one and the old one is FREE along with the WO frameworks, all the
other development tools and Project Wonder! Does it make sense for me
to spend $500 on this one tool. Nah, we can get by with the old tools
till they cease to function, then we can keep a couple workstations
running the old versions of Mac OS X and WO to get by for a few more
years.
To Chuck and Mike, was your "... estimate of US$100,000 to US
$150,000 ..." based on starting from scratch, or on building from the
original WOBuilder's Objective C codebase? If Apple provided the code
base, would that reduce the estimate in your opinion?
I think building a new WOBuilder is a worthy objective, but I don't
realistically believe that whoever does it will recoup the money
indicated by estimates of the sizes given.
Regards,
Jerry
On Jul 5, 2007, at 4:58 AM, Simon McLean wrote:
On 5 Jul 2007, at 09:53, Jean Pierre Malrieu wrote:
Let's say 500$ for a fully functional, polished EntityModeler /
WOBuilder bundle...
That would be a fair reward, considering all the stuff Mike gave
to the community.
Now that is a fine idea.
Simon
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