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From: Lachlan Deck <email@hidden>

Subject: Re: Preview of the general survey

On 08/07/2007, at 6:08 AM, Ricardo Strausz wrote:

Hola Pascal!

There are some things VERY strange with this preview's numbers...

besides that some numbers do not add up to 233 :-p

1. Mexico is not in the top 5

2. 5% of the community is planning to jump out the boat, no mater

what...

3. 44% still uses Xcode/PB as primary IDE.

4. only 12% develop outside OSX...

5. only 7% deploys in windows while almost 70% deploys in OSX...

This makes a question go round in my mind:

was it an intelligent move, to move out WO from its X-centrism?

Yes. Xcode is not a Java-centric IDE. Java developers need a proper

Java IDE as WebObjects is not the only Java platform in town.

I meant, while from WO4 to WO5, WO changed from being done in Objective-C, to be done in Java.

of course, the 52% who use now E/WOL may say they benefit from

that; but, in perspective, WOL would never existed if WO had remain

X-centric, right?

Incorrect. WOL existed before WebObjects tools were deprecated.

I was not thinking about that...

all that effort could be putted in ... in something else, right?

By whom?

Do you know who maintain the project?

I repeat, only 12% develop outside OSX --- why should we worry that

much about them ;^(

Because WebObjects deploys to any platform. WebObjects should

therefore be developed on any platform.

mmmhhh

May be there should be another question somewhere in the survey:

do you use other Java-frameworks to build your WO apps?

Yes.

how many?

Depends on the task at hand.

does they exists in/for Cocoa?

No. The Cocoa-Java bridge is deprecated.

tell me...

Dino