For suure but my point is it didn't add any major features to EXPAND the user base. It was an essential thing to do for their survival as a company and yes - it meanguys currently on 5.5.5 would now upgrade, but all that painful work didn't really add any new features with a "USP" that might attract new developers to the platform that currently use a different language/toolset.
On 1/2/07 17:16, "Joe Huber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Feb 01, 2007, at 9:57 AM, Daniel Stenning wrote: >> >>> That whole porting to Intel and Xcode thing must have been painful in >>> terms of manpower effort and budgeting. Lets not forget that all it did for >>> RS was to keep REALbasic "in the game" - it didn't add any new marketable >>> features to RB. > > You must be kidding! Building UB's is a huge marketable feature. I > believe it's the single biggest thing that's causing RB 5.5 hold outs > to invest in RB 2007, and the most important feature driving 2005 and > 2006 users to upgrade. > > Regards, > Joe Huber > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: > <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> > > Search the archives of this list here: > <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html> > _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>