> Yes, the name might make some people think it's not serious enough, >cause it sounds funny and some don't know how to pronounce it.
Does that really matter? How funny is a name like "Google", or how relevant is "Apple" to computers? > I'm a bit worried about the fact that 1and1 does not use qooxdoo on >their website, I mean their Control Panel, for thier hosting service. Yeh, I always found that curious - I used to assume that was one of the reasons 1&1 were developing Qooxdoo but I guess not. > And i'm worried that qooxdoo is almost 7 years old now, and it still has >such a small comunity. Maybe it's going to die at some time, or maybe 1&1 >will stop investing in it I'd say it's a pretty strong community and that the core team advance the product on an on-going basis, and it's open source (AFAIK unlike ExtJS) so you would always have the code even if 1&1 decided to pull the plug. I think you need to put in into perspective - if you're that worried, perhaps you should look at Microsoft and .NET > Why isn't there a company that relies on qooxdoo? SPAR's online store >doesn't use qooxdoo anymore and lots of link from the real_live_examples >are dead. Actually SPAR never used Qooxdoo for the online store the real_life_examples entry refers to the SPAR QA website, which is an extranet website for head office and is not available to the public (I know, I wrote it). It's also very much alive and used on a daily basis by suppliers across the UK and Europe; so are another couple of intranet websites, and we're moving their ERP onto the cloud with Qooxdoo. As for companies that rely on Qooxdoo - I do, my customers do. Qooxdoo brings a development environment to the client that we've only had on servers/non-web for decades - solid OO and a rich, cross platform, extensible set of widgets and other tools. I've not tried ExtJS or Prototype since I first settled on Qooxdoo around 2004/2005 but IMHO it wins hands down and I've no intention of switching, ever. I also use it for writing server code now, too. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ qooxdoo-devel mailing list qooxdoo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel
