Oh God, Michael. You doth bring up many toady things... 23 years ago I started spending a small fortune on Mac hardware and software -- about $15,000 alone on the combination of all my 4D and Omnis crap, their upgrades, and their add-ons -- and waited *patiently* while Apple promised to penetrate the Enterprise, which never happened. I was one of those guys who spent $2,500 on the original Mac with a dot matrix printer, then paid premium prices for new Macs as it became necessary to upgrade, which was more often than I'd liked.
So there I was with an *unbelievable* investment in Mac hardware and software, and I was scraping for what little work a small company here or there had for the Mac platform. All my friends in the industry were on PCs running DOS and early versions of Windows, and they were *thriving*, buying new cars, moving to bigger houses, going on two-week vacations. They didn't jump at the "superior technology" of the Mac; they went with the mainstream and had all the business they could handle. I finally wised-up and dumped the Mac as a platform, then had to reinvest all over again with the Windows platform. These days it's all smooth sailing with Windows machines loaded with top-notch development tools you can't get on the Mac. I wish you had been around before I made my early decision to go with the Mac so you could have slapped me really hard. What a freakin' V8 moment that's been. Now the only two Macs I have are here for three reasons only: one to test Mac browsers with AJAX, one to test Mac browsers without AJAX, and to act as the company jukebox using iTunes. And the kids like to play Nanosaur every now and then. That's about all we'll ever use these things for. So really, folks, Michael has said it all in a nutshell, and I can tell you from personal experience that he's right. These days we make our decisions based almost entirely on industry pie charts and trend charts (bookstore shelf space dedicated to each technology is a rather non-scientific indicator, but it's also useful), which is one reason why we've been seriously moving to the .NET platform and concentrating on things other than ColdFusion for the past few years. Respectfully, Adam Phillip Churvis Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX 7 Developer BlueDragon Alliance Founding Committee Get advanced intensive Master-level training in C# & ASP.NET 2.0 for ColdFusion Developers at ProductivityEnhancement.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael E. Carluen To: CF-Talk Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2006 6:52 AM Subject: RE: Sticking with CF... Dave, I think no one is really disputing your stance that Macs are superior to Windows/aka PCs in several areas. But as Mike said somewhere in the thread, most developers support a platform on the basis of simple economics... its not about which platform is better, its about where the potential customer are and what most of the customers are using. Btw, how's the Mac biggies like Claris, ACIUS 4D, Blyth Omnis7, Provue Dvlpmnt, Farallon, Survivor Sftwr, etc... (to name a few) doing nowadays? I wonder.. ;-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:244716 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
