> This has NOTHING to do with the quality of Java or Java3d. > If their products dont sell, their products DONT SELL. They are NOT selling java3d, rather technologies > that leverage it. Your reasoning doesnt seem to make sense to me on this. > > ian >> >> I noticed that the following products that uses Java3D had abandoned >> their development.
I can only support Ian's view on the issue. We are into application oriented research in knowledge management, and my team is doing knowledge visualisations of all kind, and trying to sell it to customers. The first thing that happened when the economy started to go down was that even the few customers who'd shown interest in 3D visualisation before immediatly retreated from the area. Yes, perhaps a nice flash animation, some colored squares and circles, "y'know, like, i've seen on that website, looked sooo nice", but no 3D please, to hard to handle, no true advantage, inmature technology, you name it. In general, while 2D visualisation is flourishing and many companies working in the field make good money, 3D is still a market of small niches, for example medical data visualisation, and outside that niches life is hard. Bottom line: I would not dare to judge the future potential of a technology like Java3D by the success or failure of the product ideas of a few startups. Cheers Wolfgang ==================================================================== Wolfgang Kienreich Technical Research Knowledge Retrieval / Knowledge Visualization Know-Center http://www.know-center.at Inffeldgasse 16c, 8010 Graz, Austria email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone : +43 316 820918 647 fax : +43 316 873 5688 ==================================================================== -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- Von: Discussion list for Java 3D API [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Ian M Nieves Gesendet: Mittwoch, 26. Februar 2003 09:27 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: [JAVA3D] Is Java3D going to be end-of-lifed? This has NOTHING to do with the quality of Java or Java3d. If their products dont sell, their products DONT SELL. They are NOT selling java3d, rather technologies that leverage it. Your reasoning doesnt seem to make sense to me on this. ian On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Scott wrote: > I noticed that the following products that uses Java3D had abandoned > their development. > > WebScope3D from http://www.webscope3d.com/ > SolidWorks Viewer http://www.solidworks.com/ > SDRC(EDS) JView http://www.eds.com/products/plm/ > and > JView3DPro from http://www.int.com/ is raising the > concern regarding the future of the Java3D API! > > It's really sad to see it happened! > If more companies raise the same concern and have a > real doubt about the future of Java3D API, don't you think that > End-of-Lifed might not just be rumors anymore! It's becoming a fact in > my mind! > > So what is the real issue behind all these doubts? > Is this the general issue of Java on the Client side? > Or it's the design of Java3d API itself? > I would like to hear your opinion on this issue and > if possible, share with us any success stories you have > using the Java3D API. > > > Regards > > Scott > > ====================================================================== > ===== > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body > of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help". > > ======================================================================== === To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help". ==========================================================================To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
