Rev cgi vs. php

[Lynn Fredricks]

> 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.

Best regards,

Lynn Fredricks
President
Proactive International, LLC

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