Why isn't Rev more popular?

Chipp Walters chipp at chipp.com
Mon Dec 5 22:01:15 EST 2005


Jerry,

I wrote both eXpertSystem (based upon IdeaFisher, but NOT Ideafisher, 
which is probably what you downloaded and crashed) and ButtonGadget. 
Interesting is your incorrect assessment that ButtonGadget was trivial. 
It took many more hours of programming than eXpertSystem. BTW, we have 
literally thousands of downloads of both ButtonGadget and eXpertSystem, 
and it appears you are one of the very few who can't get it to run. Hmmmm.

Altuit also has Hemingway, a full-blown content management system which 
has been rewritten in Rev and performs for our customers each and every day.

I'm sorry you haven't taken the time to adequately look at the number of 
commercial apps available made with Revolution. I suspect one of the 
problems is the lack of good case studies at the RunRev website. 
Hopefully these will be fixed in the future.

Interesting is your claim, "Revolution is not well suited for business
needs." I wasn't aware of your expert knowledge of Rev capabilities, but 
thanks for pointing it out to me!

best,

Chipp

Jerry Saperstein wrote:
> Hershel:

> But your point is valid: Revolution is not well suited for business
> needs. I see a number of people who claim that have or know of business
> applications built with Revolution, yet the references are never specific
> and, oddly enough, none of them (save one) are commercial applications that
> you could download an evaluation copy of. The one exception I know of is the
> upgrade of a product called "IdeaFisher." I downloaded the eval, allegedly
> built with Revolution, and it immediately crashed.




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