| David, We all love WebObjects because it is a terrific development environment, one that you appreciate all the more when you try the alternatives. But all it takes is a dice search to understand that j2ee and .Net dominate (like thousands of jobs vs 10 jobs). Apple is deep in WebObjects because of the infrastructure it has built using it, but has no business interest in it any more. At one time when WebObjects was THE web development tool they might have used it as a wedge to sell other Apple products (since it came in through the IT Dept. front door instead of the Graphics Dept. back door), but that's when it sold for $25,000. The opportunity has passed. I believe that as late as today WebObjects might find a life if it was open-sourced. I base this on the amazing proliferation of j2ee and other frameworks, which go to show that the problem is not solved. It's wild how much more work it is to do a site in struts than WebObjects, for example. But apparently Apple either has a positive reason not to do this (say legal reasons) or a negative reason (like there's nothing in it for them), so it appears unlikely to occur. WebObjects won't go away soon, but simply cannot be a growth area under the present circumstances, no matter what features they add. Wonderful tool, bad prospects. Better to look at Ruby on Rails if you're a technology lover or j2ee if you're a practical guy. Jim On Aug 25, 2006, at 9:26 PM, David Sanchez wrote:
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