> > Surprise: the economics are tied to the eye candy. > > Regards, > > Scott Rossi
Good arguments Scott, but i disagree still the economics are based on the sales... marketshare... Industry standards... Sure the mac is prettier, like a bmw, but it's still not the bmw they lease for the common company driver. No matter how you twist the argument, the law of supply and demand will rule... More technicians to managers. Rev may be a development management tool, it aint the common programmer's heaven... (a thematic hyper-twist between the lines) in my company, it's 3000 seats... sun emc and MS. Major enterprise tools, the more they cost, the more likely they will be bought... i seriously dont see how apple could vantage one "enterprise" feature... even security... You'd have to rely on specific hardware - not mac os. Databases? Oracle - Production CPU? Sun or mainframe. Clients? 3000 PCs or thin clients (as is now the fashion in reducing costs in workstation leases). So if Rev still doesn't work in Metaframe environments, it's not a problem but it's still an eye sore for any developper who can't distribute 1000 of anything to a larger more enterprise client. That's economic losses for (not me) the many PC=rent developpers among you. I dont say rev is not capable, it's just not being done the way i would have expected in terms of cross-platform or enterprise "quality and feel" as it's being done for the "minority" of potential mac client. The performance and lack of object/array programming is coming i hope soon - probably after my license expires. Meanwhile, i was able to develop these myself and that's where i see the eye-candy... The economics of a good programming design. After 15 years. How many of you are going to wait to get these benefits? That's opportunity cost for all of us... cheers Xavier http://monsieurx.com/taoo _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution