Yeah but...
And again, I am not advocating that any of us bother creating a competitive
word processor in Rev, because I see little point in re-inventing the wheel
unless there is some sort of clear advantage the software can deliver...
But...
Using Rev, most of these types of programs would not be that difficult. I
understand that the reason for that is because Rev does most of the hard stuff
for you.
A spreadsheet, for example, may be complex in terms of defining the cells and
such - but if you already have the code worked out for defining a field, it
cannot too big of a jump to defining a cell.
As for features - do they really have thousands? I am pretty skilled with using
both MS Word and MS Excel. It doesn't seem like they contain thousands of
features - but maybe I am just not appreciating everything they can do.
In my humble opinion, it seems that the problem must be that these programs are
being essentially built from scratch. If they were designed using a single
starting point, with all the basic components ready to use, then they could be
created much more efficiently.
Think about it - for $65-million, don't you think a team of experienced Rev
developers could create a suite that would blow the pants off of MS office?
All hypothetical, of course.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andre Garzia
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 5:28 PM
To: How to use Revolution
Subject: Re: Office Software
On Jan 21, 2005, at 7:55 PM, Lynch, Jonathan wrote:
> 1) Is it really that difficult to create basic office software?
>
> 2) Why does it cost so much?
Jonathan,
to create a huge mammoth (is this how one spell
big-prehistoric-elephant in english?) like an Office app is not a task
for a single person Man, just think about the thousands of features
that you don't use... then wonder about the thousand of features you
don't even know
The word processor task... imagine the code to manage one single
document! those things are not HTML they are more complex than
that... now wonder about SPREADSHEETit take years and a team to
create a simple one now, integrate the whole office I would not
know how to begin a project like this. I think thats why there are
special developer teams doing this kind of thing for years.
don't know, for me it's just to big.
andre
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