> So, my question is who out there has really tested MetaCard's cross-platform
> abilities, especially from/to UNIX and Windows. Scott warned us about the
> font issue, which I guess is a given anyway. Any other comments? I
> personally am convinced that MetaCard is the way to go, but I need some
> muscle to flex at the customer.
I can't speak for the Wintel<->UNIX compatibility, since my playing with
Linux has thus far been limited.
But over the last year our company delivered about a half-dozen applications
for both Mac OS and Windows. Given the relative similarities between
Windows and UNIX (Mac really is rather the odd bird until we get to Mac OS
X), I would think that MetaCard's grace and ease with Windows-Mac
compatibility speaks at least as strongly.
In our apps, MetaCard has allowed up to use less than 3% of
platform-specific code - everything else is another great testimony to
MetaCard's platform-independent interpreter (and ever so much faster than
Icon Author's 5GL).
With the client having been burned by the Icon Author experience, I
understand their concerns but at the same time even those concerns make a
strong case for MetaCard:
Asymetrix bought Icon Author and failed to deliver. Sybase made Gain
Momentum and lost interest. Oracle killed OMO outright after only 18 months
on the market. The size of the vendor is no guarantee of the vendor's
commitment.
Meanwhile MetaCard Corp. has been actively developing and maintaining
MetaCard, at this time the only truly multi-platform development tool aside
from Java (and who has time to wait for all those classes to load? <g>).
With the attention MC 2.3 has been getting (a great upgrade, and kudos to
Scott for getting it mentioned in the Mac press), the MetaCard experience
seems likely to outshine just about any other tool.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web
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