Re: State of Windows deployment in 2009?

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>> Talking about history; we have been using WebObjects since 1998.
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> Cool.
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>> The point is that Apple did not want to stand in the way of something =
better suited.
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> lol... because as a company they're just generous at heart when it =
comes to setting their technology free ;-)
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>> In their opinion, at that time, the WOLips tools WERE ready for the =
masses,
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> Now you've either got this from the horses mouth so to speak or are =
making it up. The former makes no sense as it is simply not true (Entity =
Modeler for exmaple was no where near ready ... as Mike worked hard on =
it *after* the announcement of Apple dropping theirs). Sure it was =
showing signs of being the way to go for the future ... that would be =
closer to making sense.

It was the way I said before; 1) XCode came out, 2) WOLips came out, 3) =
WOLips was found to be better than XCode by Apple, [two years later] 4) =
Apple imposed that opinion on the community.

Referring to Apple as a horse is not very conductive to fostering good =
relationship between the community and Apple.

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>> as Apple had already been using them internally for a couple of years =
prior to that.=20
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> That little thing called the Java-bridge doing its disappearing act =
had some influence on their decision too... :-)
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> Look, I hope they do get around to releasing 5.5, 5.6 etc but there's =
no denying that there's some internal politics that's slowing things =
down considerably.
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> with regards,
> --
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> Lachlan Deck
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Be good to santa, and maybe there will be something under the tree.

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