Was it really called Pierian Spring? If so, their hubris was met by
the appropriate nemesis:
A little learning is a dang'rous thing
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring."
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
Graham
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:36:38 -0800, "Lynn Fredricks"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Digital Chisel then pursued their Windows strategy by
attempting to port their product to Java.
DC was apparently unprepared for the orders-of-magnitude
greater cost of developing with Java, and not long after they
shut their doors.
I get at least two lessons from this story:
1. It's useful for a vendor of a powerful and flexible engine
to protect themselves from customers who might compete
directly with them at a very tiny fraction of the vendor's
development cost.
2. Switching from Xtalk to Java is a really expensive thing to do.
Same for me :-)
Pierian Spring (the DC guys) was a local company here. I sat down
at their
office and played with the Java thing they had going. It looked nice
but...man it was slug slow and crashy.
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