year over year it's the same song ....
I can understand your problem : Predict the future is a very hard task, very error prone exercice :
Top 20 financial institutions by market capitalization in 1999 vs 2009
http://www.leap2020.eu/GEAB-N-35-is-available!-Global-systemic-crisis-June-2009-When-the-world-steps-out-of-a-sixty-year-old-referential_a3248.html
Apple vs Java : http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?t=5y&s=AAPL&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=JAVA
Sorry, Apple vs Oracle : http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?t=2y&s=ORCL&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=AAPL
It's clear that Apple is doing big business today , directly with the help of WebObjects
but for my (2 cents ) point of view, the only thing I know today is very simple :
We don't know what Apple will do in the future with WebObjects and that's a major trouble for some of us ....
You can consider other alternatives like Hibernate : http://blog.xebia.com/2009/02/07/hibernate-and-multi-threading/
Stephane
PS : I'm not pur capitalistic guy, but sometimes I'm testing myself as a small banking institution
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