Re: State of Windows deployment in 2009?

On 25/11/2009, at 12:04 PM, Gaastra Dennis - WO Lists wrote:

>> 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.

This statement was too harsh -- apologies.

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

I said 'so to speak' as it's a very common expression that in no way =
speaks ill of the parties involved.

>>> 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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> Be good to santa, and maybe there will be something under the tree.

On this I'm happy to suggest that santa is the lie for he's not the =
reason for the season :-)

with regards,
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Lachlan Deck