Re: State of Windows deployment in 2009?

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>>> The community has arisen in response to Apple pulling back (e.g., =
Entity Modeler was written because of Apple's decision to pull the =
tools). You've got it backwards I'm afraid.
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>> Not really, IMHO, Apple is now recognizing the great contributions =
from the community, which might be better than their own. Eclipse/EM =
seemed an obvious progression; so why stand in the way?
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> You're just not providing a true picture of history. Xcode was the =
predominant dev tools for WO until Apple dropped it... and then the =
masses looked for an alternative and got behind WOLips. Sure, the WOLips =
tools were around beforehand but were in no way in a ready state for the =
masses. That's all since changed...
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> with regards,
> --
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> Lachlan Deck

Talking about history; we have been using WebObjects since 1998. The =
point is that Apple did not want to stand in the way of something better =
suited. In their opinion, at that time, the WOLips tools WERE ready for =
the masses, as Apple had already been using them internally for a couple =
of years prior to that.=20

With Kind Regards,

Dennis.=