Economics & Eye Candy

[Gordon Webster]

Mr X has really hit the nail squarely on the head.

I often open the rev IDE, wistfully hoping perhaps
that somehow it could now magically do what I need it
to do. Then I realize it can't and drift away to other
development platforms with a sense of regret at what
could have been. 

Now rev 2.6 is out and there are more fancy GUI
features than ever (deep masks etc.) but still no real
arrays, still no bridge to the vast world of shared
libraries that would allow me to integrate external
functionality into rev and save me having to either
reinvent the wheel or spend my time writing C wrappers
(for comparison, look at the Python 'ctypes' module or
the 'usedll' type of features that abound in the many
versions of Basic). Sigh! 

Even my licence has expired and I just can't imagine
stumping up another $200.00 to have 'deep masks', but
still not the features I really need.

Transcript has the potential to be so much more than
just a cool GUI designer.

Gordon


--- MisterX <b.xavier at internet.lu> wrote:

> > 
> > Surprise: the economics are tied to the eye candy.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Scott Rossi
> 
> Good arguments Scott, but i disagree still
> 
> the economics are based on the sales...
> marketshare...
> Industry standards...
> 
> Sure the mac is prettier, like a bmw, but it's still
> not the bmw they lease for the common company
> driver.
> 
> No matter how you twist the argument, the law of 
> supply and demand will rule... More technicians to
> managers.
> 
> Rev may be a development management tool, it aint
> the common programmer's
> heaven... (a thematic hyper-twist between the lines)
> 
> in my company, it's 3000 seats... sun emc and MS.
> Major enterprise tools,
> the more they cost, the more likely they will be
> bought...
> 
> i seriously dont see how apple could vantage one
> "enterprise" feature...
> even security... You'd have to rely on specific
> hardware - not mac os.
> Databases? Oracle - Production CPU? Sun or
> mainframe. Clients? 3000 PCs or
> thin clients (as is now the fashion in reducing
> costs in workstation
> leases). So if Rev still doesn't work in Metaframe
> environments, it's not a
> problem but it's still an eye sore for any
> developper who can't distribute
> 1000 of anything to a larger more enterprise client.
> That's economic losses
> for (not me) the many PC=rent developpers among you.
> 
> I dont say rev is not capable, it's just not being
> done the way i would have
> expected in terms of cross-platform or enterprise
> "quality and feel" as it's
> being done for the "minority" of potential mac
> client. The performance and
> lack of object/array programming is coming i hope
> soon - probably after my
> license expires. Meanwhile, i was able to develop
> these myself and that's
> where i see the eye-candy... The economics of a good
> programming design.
> After 15 years. How many of you are going to wait to
> get these benefits?
> That's opportunity cost for all of us...
> 
> cheers
> Xavier
> http://monsieurx.com/taoo
> 
> 
> 
> 
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