on 22/1/01 22:55, Robert Brenstein at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Simon,
>>> Huge article over at MacCentral for Valentina but it does not mention
>>> or link to MetaCard. And it pains me to see Valentina's web site
>>> actually spell out "Apple's Hypercard" which is dead from Apple's
>>> point of view, but lump MetaCard into the word xTalk. We need to
>>> support Scott and MetaCard by actually spelling this stuff out for
>>> others and not let them guess at what xTalk is (I met an old
>>> HyperCard programmer at Discreet last week, he had no idea what
>>> MetaCard was):
>
> Whether HyperCard is dead is in the eye of beholder. See the recent story
> at MacCentral:
>
> http://www.maccentral.com/news/0101/18.ihug.shtml
>
>
>> Simon, believe me we was not going offend Metacard in any way!
>> Just visa versa, main developer of VXCMD -- Brian Yenni is MetaCard
>> developer and we have made all our best to provide you great database engine
>> as on MAC so on Windows.
>>
>> Robert, please check if we really have miss MetaCard in some places of our
>> WEB pages, Okay ?
>
> The homepage does not specifically mention MetaCard -- it refers to "xCard
> compatible environments like Apple HyperCard" which should not be offending
> to anyone since HC is the grandfather of all of them, those current like
> MC, those retired like Plus, and those forthcoming like FreeCard.
>
> There are explicit mentions of MetaCard on the Valentina XCMD page, on the
> industry partners page, inside XCMD doc, and a link is provided on the
> online resources page.
Good comments, Robert, thank you.
>>> You now, ironically, I think that MetaCard sales would probably
>>> rocket if Scott got the rights to name MetaCard "HyperCard". Maybe
>>> MC should do an IPO, the users buy stock, the money is used to buy
>>> HyperCard from Apple - tell the world its alive again (but it's
>>> really MetaCard), and watch the user base grow.
>>>
>>> Just thinking out loud.
>
> I doubt. May be temporarily due to confusion. MetaCard is a great product
> but it is still developing, very much like Valentina. Its learning curve is
> more steep than HC and the IDE is not so nice. MetaCard is also too
> expensive for the home developer (I mean people who produce stacks for
> themselves) and that is the majority of HyperCard users. Many commercial
> HyperCard developers switched or develop in both environments (vide Brian
> Yenni) since they can easily justify spending $1000 and usually they need
> the dual platform support.
--
Best regards,
Ruslan Zasukhin
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