The forum frontend (http://forums.runrev.com/) is available for any
passerby to see, and it is a very quiet place... Hence the 'sadest
Forum I've seen' comment.
Many have used these forums to make the same comments :-).
I'm evaluating several development options, some of which track
differently because the nature of some projects doesn't require
full blown coding which is easily covered by other apps. Other
projects do have that requirement, and I'm looking at least cost
(both in software and development time) and then plough through
with whatever options I have chosen.
Then your "fishing" for information/causing reaction behaviour makes
sense. The different areas you poked are indeed important ones to
consider when evaluating a technology to use in future projects (to
depend on for possibly years to come).
As you are probably well aware of, the tricky question to answer with
revolution is to guess where the product would be in 3-5 years time.
Sure it is relatively easy to learn and rapid to program... but it
also tend to isolate you, getting you loose your flexibility. Reduced
costs now and possibly huge cost if you need to change your approach
later on. Similarly, without a good components approach, you could
get stuff out rapidly... but the cost of getting something out will
remain about the same over the years. With a components approach, you
pay a higher cost early on... but the cost progressively decreases.
There will come a point, if that environment has not evolved into
what I reckon it should (call this bug fixes, features, take your
pick) I will drop it. This is my personal opinion, no better or
worse than anyone else's.
Six months ago, I expressed my concerns...
The old direction (heads, top guys) replied to these concerns in a
way that got me to think that revolution will stay for the next 5
years at about at the same place it has been for the last 10 years
(including the various precursors) and despite having had a huge head
start being taken over by other technologies.
The new direction avoided promises and asked me to wait. Not used
revolution for 6 months.... Learned other technologies, other
frameworks. I am now in the process of evaluating it again.
Nothing wrong with the questions you try to answer.... The problem is
that I cannot answer your questions today... I have some elements but
that I sworn to keep private. There are other answers I simply don't
have. That's the same for most persons on this list.
If you have some serious business project in mind and a few features
are essential to your projects, why not contact revolution's
management directly and ask them whether there is any chance to have
these features implemented within 1-5 years?
Marielle
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