I was a WO Sr. Consulting Engineer with Apple until 2005 and miss working in WO a lot! I just set up a dev environment to work on a new personal project to get my head back into it. As someone whose had to manage the development of new products, it's probably a mistake business-wise to choose such a deprecated platform with such a small knowledge-base. Even getting the environment spun up with WOLips and WOnder has required deciphering outdated resources. As WO was already a hard platform to learn (conceptually), it's difficulty is now compounded by tools that aren't as slick as a ProjectBuilder/EOModeler/WOBuilder. So while there's a still a small community of people who could support a WO app, the availability of an engineer(s) might be challenging, and trying to train new support engineers would be painful. This is why the businesses with whom I've been working have chosen popular (or more simple script-based) backends like RoR, PHP, Python, or more mainstream Java frameworks. Trust me...I'd LOVE to have a few companies use WO, and if this was a merit-based competition, WO would be a great choice. Your point about getting hit by a bus is valid. A bus could mow down the entire PHP staff at a company and they'd be back in business the next day.
> On Jun 22, 2017, at 10:25 AM, Robert Hanviriyapunt <roberth...@mac.com> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I am a total WebObjects fan (a serious fanatic)! And I have the chance to > suggest to a new potential client to have me rework the entire A$P/M$$QL > system in WebObjects. My worries are that should I get run over by a bus, > whom may I get him in contact with to take over and/or support the system. > Anybody still out there? I'm building list to give him confidence there > will be available support. Is there a nice place all us WebO developers can > register? > > = Robert = > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/dblack%40db3.net > > This email sent to dbl...@db3.net _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
