In need of general WO strategy advice

Dear WO-community

I'm afraid I need some general WO strategic advice. We've been WO  
developers since the time of Rhapsody - although we've only produced  
SMB solutions. It was always hard to find developers who were willing  
to invest time to learn this great technology, because it was always  
"Apples best kept secret" (TM). And it was not too easy convincing  
customers to invest money in that technology because in the SMB market  
everybody's talking about PHP and ASP. But we stuck to it because WO  
allowed us to do things in a time we could only dream of with other  
technologies (even with all the WO Builders "features").

What are the reasons nowadays to stick to WO?

- Although I really think the WOLips guys did a great job and I'm sure  
that mastery comes with practice... I'm really slow with WO Lips  
compared to XCode / WO Builder / EO Modeler.

- My Leopard / WO Lips development system now produces WO 5.4 apps.  
Our servers are all Solaris. Is there somewhere a WO 5.4 deployment  
installer? Or how can I install WO 5.4 on Solaris? Googeling for it  
and looking at objectstyle.org resulted only in info related to  
development...

- Finally: This list has become so quite, I have the feeling that the  
"community" is close to extinction. Could it be that the other  
developers have asked themselves these questions a while ago? And for  
those remaining: How do you justify sticking to WO in this state?

will