OT: RE: Rev cgi vs. php

[Graham Samuel]

Was it really called Pierian Spring? If so, their hubris was met by  
the appropriate nemesis:

A little learning is a dang'rous thing
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring."

Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism

Graham

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:36:38 -0800, "Lynn Fredricks"  
<lfredricks at proactive-intl.com> wrote:

>
>> Digital Chisel then pursued their Windows strategy by
>> attempting to port their product to Java.
>>
>> DC was apparently unprepared for the orders-of-magnitude
>> greater cost of developing with Java, and not long after they
>> shut their doors.
>>
>> I get at least two lessons from this story:
>>
>> 1. It's useful for a vendor of a powerful and flexible engine
>> to protect themselves from customers who might compete
>> directly with them at a very tiny fraction of the vendor's
>> development cost.
>>
>> 2. Switching from Xtalk to Java is a really expensive thing to do.
>
> Same for me :-)
>
> Pierian Spring (the DC guys) was a local company here. I sat down  
> at their
> office and played with the Java thing they had going. It looked nice
> but...man it was slug slow and crashy.