Transitive?

[Richard Gaskin]

On Jun 6, 2005, at 10:22 AM, John Ridge wrote:
 >
 > BBC News reports "Technology news site The Register also reports
 > that Apple has licensed technology from a company called
 > Transitive which makes software that makes it easier to port
 > programs on to different chip architectures"
 >
 > If the current rumours are correct, is Revolution stymied? If,
 > by  magic, apps developed on any platform can be run without
 > change on any other, what need is there for cross-platform
 > tools like Rev?
 >
 > Still a fascinating IDE, but it's lost a major selling point.....

Hardly.  This hurts Microsoft and their VirtualPC more than anyone else.

For those of us who design multi-platform applications this technology 
would seem to have little if any impact:  emulating a chip architecture 
is one thing, emulating an OS quite another.

And even if it could emulate the OS (oh the copyright issues there) do 
Mac users really want Win-designed apps, or Win users want Mac-designed 
apps?

There's a lot more to multi-platform design and development than 
microchip instruction sets.....

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