Re: In need of general WO strategy advice

On Jul 21, 2008, at 7:54 AM, Will Scheidegger wrote:

> 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?
Productivity, versatility and power of the frameworks. Awesome and  
well-supported new tools (WOLips)

>
>
> - 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.
Mastery comes with practice... IMHO, productivity is far better in new  
WOLips tools than old XCode WO suite.

>
>
> - 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,
You may not be subscribed to all the lists. I see from footer you are  
on omnigroup list ....  (try apple's webobjects-dev, project wonder's  
discussion list and woproject (wolips tools) discussion list .......  
plenty of trffic if you subscribe to them all and combines the feeds.


> I have the feeling that the "community" is close to extinction.
Far from it. More like many are on vacation OR so busy with WebObjects  
work that they have less time for discussion :-)



> Could it be that the other developers have asked themselves these  
> questions a while ago?
No

> And for those remaining: How do you justify sticking to WO in this  
> state?
Productivity, versatility and power of the frameworks. Awesome and  
well-supported new tools (WOLips)

>
>
> will
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