Revolution vs other solutions

[Jesse Sng]

>I am familiar with much of what you describe as being part of the 
>solution set you have to craft and I don't know of a single obstacle 
>in Revolution that would not make it not only a viable choice but 
>clearly the best choice given all you've said about your background 
>and experience.
>
>Designed properly, my guess is there's a significant market for the 
>finished product beyond your main client.
>
>I'd go for it.

I was planning to go for it anyway, but just wanted to be sure that 
there are no stones left unturned. My choice was an intuitive one, 
but given that there were folks on this list who are developing on 
more than one environment, I thought I might ask and see if someone 
could give me an objective answer.

I'm up against pretty tough competition - the Old system. That one 
was left unmaintained for the better part of 12 yrs or longer and 
it's still running fine today. IF the machine or the system goes down 
today, they are pretty much out of business and so it's got to be 
pretty robust.

The question of course is whether I'm going to be able to achieve 
that with Revolution/AppleScript/InDesign as opposed to Think 
C++/QuarkXpress.

I'm pretty much fighting against my past.

I'm also being careful here because I had to backtrack once in the 
early stage of a major project after things pretty much were working 
even in a prototype demo running on SC and I had to rewrite 
everything using Macromedia Director just so that I could have finer 
control over display elements on the screen. That was an exercise in 
frustration because every month that went by was a constant nagging 
reminder that I could have wrapped up the whole system months ago, 
cashed in the billables and gone on vacation!


Jesse