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[Mark Brownell]

"sweet smell of Death now lingering about Director.
...OMO, HyperCard, ..." & Java...

How many times will Director have to die. This is starting to look like Paul
Ruben's (pee-wee-hermon) death scene in 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer.' He just
keeps hanging in there like a never ending style of a way to go. Let's see,
Jave was supposed to put Director in the grave. That never happened as the
doom sayers said it would.

How about this for why Director is not going away soon. 3-D and shockwave
are going to make the future of on-line large scale braudband media
presentations more accessible to the largest user base. Flash is installed
on 99% of the computers using the internet. It stands to reason that
Macromedia moving shockwave from 70% to 99% would mean that more application
developers would also want to support shockwave. Some might want to talk
down Director for whatever reason they think is appropriate but I see those
percentages for shockwave installs going up. I also see the numbers for
broadband users going up. I see Macromedia always testing the waters to make
what they sell reach a wider user base. There is only one thing that has
changed dramatically and that is Director's multi-user server. That could be
no longer supported because of known security issues that Macromedia have
solved with  their Flash equivalent products and that Director has access
to, even in shockwave. My two-cents on this thread is watch Shockwave in
order to read the tea leaves. If the user installs keep increasing to higher
percentage of computers using the internet than that will tell you if
Director is going to Die very soon or not.

Mark Brownell

on 1/11/03 1:03 AM, Jim Lambert at jiml at netrin.com wrote:

>> run inside a browser, there is nothing anywhere near as powerful as
>> ShockWave.
> 
> So true. Which makes the sweet smell of Death now lingering about Director
> so disconcerting - and too familiar. OMO, HyperCard, ...
> 
> Jim Lambert