WWDC Attenders WebObjects Track

[samca at closehauled.com (Sam Carpenter)]

On 7/10/03 11:22 AM, "james o" <jamesList@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What's even worse is that Apple could easily make inroads on Microsoft in
the enterprise space using WO.  I just left Microsoft and there isn't
anything they have that compares to WO for enterprise developers.  If you
look at what Microsoft presents at PDC for object-relational solutions
(ObjectSpaces), it is a complete joke compared to EOF.  And don't get me
started on the .NET VM versus the Java VM.

If Apple would just "go for it" with WO they could really hit Microsoft
where it hurts.

-Sam Carpenter
Closehauled Solutions, LLC

>>> 
>> 
>> Does this seem a little mad to anyone else? Here we are, enterprise
>> developers, using an advanced enterprise development tool (yes, I do
>> mean WebObjects), and Apple decides to NDA the content of a conference
>> for developers using WebObjects, so that those of us unfortunate
>> enough to be unable (for perfectly valid reasons) to get along to
>> WWDC, can't see what the future plans for WebObjects are.
>> 
>> Come on Apple, how about a credible road map for the future of
>> WebObjects... especially if you're going to put JBoss on Jaguar!
>> 
>> Yes, I do feel like Apple is ignoring us developers again! :(
> 
> 
> ditto!  i truly wish Apple would share the future plans of WebObjects
> AND advertise the product to the rest of the java world.  so, does
> anyone know what's going to be in the next release of WO.  oh yeh, it's
> NDA - sorry about your luck.  go ahead and e-mail apple and they might
> tell you the little "secrets".    boys and girls, let's just keep WO
> our little secret.  2 years ago w/ 5.0 coming out at WWDC Apple
> promised greater publicity and advertising for WO which i haven't
> witnessed.   in the meantime app servers like  JBoss, BEA, Websphere,
> Coldfusion, .net, etc.. are charging to the forefront.  tell your
> clients that you use WebObjects and they wonder what it is.
> 
> come on Apple, keep us on your ship.   too many good people are going
> to jump.
> 
> 2 cents,
> ./james
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