No doubt it would give a great lift, but there are many reasons why I think it might be better to "sweep up" the niche and other markets first. Gunning for the enterprise presents some challenges:
The majority of the enterprise market is ( on the desktop anyway ) 99% windows and don't really need the cross platform benefits of RB. Plus the existing IT tool space in the windows enterprise market are basically fine , mature and "there" already ( VS, .NET, PowerBuilder, web app dev tools, integration with modelling and source control systems). That's an awful lot of bases to cover. Even just integrating with VC systems wouldn't be enough by a long shot. On thing I proposed to RS some time ago and still think might be a beneficial thing to pursue is some arrangement whereby RS forms a partnership with Sybase to help Sybase market an RB plugin version of their Datawindows technology. After many enterprise developers dropped PowerBuilder in favour of .NET and other tools, Sybase produced a special version of the Datawindow control that can work in the Visual Studio .NET ide. I am not going to even start to describe why Datawindows are so powerful for enterprise IT, but suffice to say they are what made PB so popular and productive for client-server and web based IT some years back. PowerBuilder as a language and app builder is way behind REALbasic in both language and performance terms, but it is the patented Datawindow technology that switched many corporate VB people on to PB some years back. No other technology addressing the same IT issues, to my knowledge covers so many of the bases so well. ( I suggest anyone interested refer to the Sybase web site or wikis if in any doubt ) In my knowledge Sybase as a policy deliberately choose to focus on Windows and Windows Mobile as their platform ( ie Win32 etc ) and do not target either Mac or Linux as desktop platforms. They stopped their Mac version of PB long ago. Given that PB is not so popular these days ( sadly many went over to java and produced systems that cost more to deliver and ran much more slowly - but hey - the contracting rates were great...) , Sybase might well be interested in any way of extracting extra revenues out of the huge IP and man years invested in Datawindows. Hell, if I were Sybase, I'd buy RS !! - REALbasic + Datawindows would be a winning ticket IMO.. On 6/1/07 17:58, "Norman Palardy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
