You hit the nail right on the head, the main reason we're straying away from that approach is the logistics of having a lot of non-computer literate people download and install JVM. although we are still considering it, its not too high on the list.
--Justin. On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Sach Jobb wrote: > <snip> > > > The vast majority of our users are on Windows, but we also > > dont want to alienate *nix and Mac users. So Im pretty much > > just looking around at the possibilities. If we do move > > to the EXE client app, I want to see if there are any > > ways to support other OSs short of porting the code. > > Is there any reason why your company is not re-writing the whole thing as > a pure java app? Hmm, well, i guess i can see if 95% of your users are m$ > then the trouble of making them all download a JVM is probably not worth > it (unless maybe it's bundled). What's it being written in? C? > > </snip> > > Cheers, > sach > >
