On Jan 06, 2007, at 8:38 AM, Daniel Stenning wrote:
Regardless of outstanding bugs and limited resources at RS I choose
to be
optimistic about RB and their future. IMO all it would take would
be for RS
to add a couple of more platforms to their list - Windows Mobile
and/or
Symbian series 60 and then RS might really take off.
After 10 years of dealing with REALbasic I'm not convinced that extra
platforms is the requirement for lift off
If anything having a Windows compiler should be the ticket
However, if you look at similar histories, VB really took off when it
started being pushed big time in corporate environments and had the
capability to be used effectively in that environment
RB has yet to be pushed in that environment by anyone and REAL is not
MS so can't impose itself in the same way
Up til recently it was understandable as team development was for all
practical purposes impossible (try it under 5.5.5)
I understand there are still issues with the version control format
and I have no idea if that still stops corporations from adopting it
for large development teams
I last worked with a large company on a pilot project for their 400
developers with 5.5.5. They've moved from VB to .Net instead of RB
That said I do think REAL would need to focus on the enterprise
market in order to gain lift
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