Am 10.02.2006 um 23:33 schrieb Dr Gerard Hammond:
On Feb 9, 2006, at 12:50 PM, Charles Yeomans wrote:
Sure. But would anybody write an enterprise level app using RB?
Today ?
Not that I am aware of but then I dont know all of REAL's
clients and what they are using RB for
We're a small enterprise, but the time-and-billing software for
my wife's law firm is written in REALbasic, with Valentina
providing the db.
We're no enterprise, but 400 teachers and staff members use an RB
solution every day for attendance, discipline, and child
accounting. The app talks to a PostgreSQL database. Not exactly
Fortune 500 stuff, but a far cry from "hobbyist" and "toy."
Great stuff.
We have 4 programmers writing and actively maintaining 10 in-house
RB scientific apps, used by 300+ scientists in Sydney using an
information architecture developed here at Garvan.
We have also developed a RB db/statistics/sample solution for the
World Anti-Doping Administration Olympics committee - WADA is the
organisation finding those cheating Olympics drug athletes....
Does that indicate a hobby tool?
No, no! I tried to say, that RB isn't at least a mainstream
enterprise tool.
Given any tool, there is definitely a handful enterprise level apps
someone built
somewhere.
I feel RB is pretty closed by design. Thus, I expect less adaption at
the enterprise
level.
Some examples:
> Make the IDE/compiler non-monolithic, and you get 40+ languages
compiling
against your framework [ like .Net/Java].
> Make the IDE/compiler non-monolithic, and you open the market for
modern
SW-design idea like MDA. If stuff is more or less closed, people
can hardly
integrate tool generated code.
> Make SOAP a fist class citizen of your IDE - like .Net 2.0's IDEs
- and people
will start enterprise level SOA apps.
I just read a .Net special issue of a german tech journal and alone
this issue
mentioned hundreds of languages, tools, code checkers, code libs and
all that
stuff. I don't believe, that any enterprise need all that languages,
but knowing
that you can eventually use something is a good argument when
choosing a platform.
Finally, don't forget that I don't say RB is bad in general.
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