Andre..... On Nov 10, 2005, at 8:47 AM, Andre Garzia wrote:
desktop is cheaper and easier to deliver
Once again, your view is limited to what now is rather than to what can and will emerge. Software is an ecosystem. Today, if you took your blogging tool and made an AJAX version, you might well see yourself being forced to create a massive and expensive network/ server infrastructure. But you might not. Mirrored sites, a mesh of cooperative servers run by a third party supplier, rented space on a large server farm with on-demand capacity...there are dozens of possible solutions to the problem.
What I'm trying to do here is to get the Rev community to think outside the desktop application box into which it fits so neatly because it is my considered opinion, based on more than three decades of experience in technology assessment and analysis, that the box is rapidly disappearing. I don't want us to abandon Rev; I want us to figure out new things we can do with Rev -- or get RunRev to add to or change about Rev -- that will allow it to play a premier role in the changing marketplace.
For a simple example: the best-of-breed AJAX developer's toolkit could and perhaps should be written in Rev. Server-side Rev componentry to support AJAX would be another great opportunity. There are several such large gems lying on the ground waiting for someone to pick them up and run with them. This stuff is in its infancy. An evolutionary shift in infrastructure is needed. Before its adoption by MS and Sun and other Big Players, that kind of change would have been difficult if not unthinkable. Their entrance into the marketplace makes it inevitable at the same time as it accelerates the day of its ubiquity.
All of the arguments that have been advanced here to demonstrate why I'm wrong are based on today's reality and even then I don't agree with most of them because their viewpoint is necessarily limited to the experience of the individual expressing them. But if we raise our eyes up to the horizon and look at what can and may well happen to facilitate this new wave in software, I think we can -- and I certainly do -- conclude that there is not a single insurmountable problem out there.
When I discovered Rev and then quickly discovered how minuscule its audience was, I was discouraged at the same time I was encouraged. I was discouraged because I feared Rev would go the way of so many other great technologies whose companies couldn't sustain them through slow-growth periods. I no longer worry much about that. I was encouraged because if only a small number of people "get" Rev, my competitive landscape is uncluttered and accessible. The same is true for AJAX except there's no need for a single company to be involved in any meaningful way. So if most of you on this list disagree with me and go on your merry way, that just means fewer competitors for those of us who do jump on the AJAX bandwagon while it is still moving slowly enough for us to stake out positions on its top level.
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