Re: Reasons *not* to open source WebObjects?

On Mar 31, 2005, at 8:08 PM, PA wrote:

>> Being a WO developers makes my team more competitive compared to our 
>> competition. Luckily so few of our competitors know about WO. 
>> Otherwise we could never keep up with the big boys :-) Many of our 
>> clients think we do wonders... we just do some very boring WO :-)
>
> Right... but... you do it well. And this has strictly nothing to do 
> with whatever toolkit du jour you may or may not be using at any given 
> point in time. Toolkits don't come packaged with talent.

Very true. But toolkits make talent shine...

This reminds me on my disappointment while reading Martin Fowler's 
"Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture".  It reminded me of 
reading a terribly outdated tutorial on EOF v1. On the other hand, I 
know that Martin is one of the most talented people in our industry....

By using WO we have free brain cycles to think about domain problems, 
instead of fighting J2EE & Co. We have time and confidence to focus at 
things like clever accounting algorithms or scheduling observations on 
robotic telescopes instead of how to hardcode SQL.... At the end of the 
day, this makes a huge difference.

cheers

Georg Tuparev
Tuparev Technologies
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