Calming customer's fears of WebObjects/Apple ...

[nat at mulle-kybernetik.com (Nat!)]

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Am Donnerstag, 08.05.03 um 05:00 Uhr schrieb Ashley Aitken:
>
> Again, I am not trying to suggest that Apple is going out of business 
> or
> dropping WebObjects.  From what I see they are committed and using it
> everywhere they can.
>
> However, this is not the perception that a lot of customers have
> (especially, of course, Windows customers).
>

I suspect there is nothing -talk can do to help you out of this 
predicament. It'd be cool if you could coax a written statement out of 
your Apple representative, that you'd get the code, if WO goes out of 
business. If your customer is huge, i think it's not absolutely totally 
hopeless to try.

> For customers investing in technology for the long term, they really
> need/want this sort of guarantee!  Interestingly, I think this is one 
> of
> the major advantages of open source software.

Yes indeed, if you were a "technological agnostic" consultant, you'd 
probably tell them exactly that.

If the customer is optimizing for longevity, WO is out.
If the customer is optimizing for money, WO is in, because you can 
promise more features or be cheaper (in many cases) for the limited 
money.

Just IMO

Ciao	
	Nat!
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