> I don't think that you will be able to impress those Flash > programmers much. They want to make on-line games and while > that's about the only thing Flash is capable of, it does it > much better than Revolution will ever do. If you were to > compare Revolution with Filemaker, you might impress your > audience with readily available server and database > capabilities in a very flexible and easily adjustable interface.
I would argue that teamed with Valentina, you already have that. With VDN Platform Edition (Revolution), you can deploy Embedded Server/Revolution solutions on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. A 5-Connection server you can deploy in unlimited quantities, and an "unlimited" connection server that's about as economical as it gets. FM makes a lot of things very easy - at the same time, that ease comes with many technical limitations. > Perhaps you might also find a grateful public amongst web > programmers who use a combination of Perl, Python, MySQL and > Apache, now that Revolution is less demanding if used as a > CGI engine. Naturally, you might try a comparison between > RealBasic, SuperCard, HyperStudio 5 (if that's ever > released), XCode and .NET. You will probably be able to find > some people who'd like to switch to Revolution. Flash however... > nah... no chance, Flash is too different. They'll just shrug. I weigh all comparisons about equally - adding a new tool means you'll have access to more customers who particularly want a feature that others don't provide - as solution providers, that's not a bad thing. There are things that RR cannot do well or at all, that Flash can do very well - and the opposite is very true. And many a strength can also be turned around into a weakness. Ive had developers tell me "oh, I can do that a-okay in my favorite tool!" - and the results look terrible. If I want to lay out a responsive, native looking application on Win/Mac/Linux, the list of candidates is pretty small. Add or subtract a platform, and the list changes again. Best regards, Lynn Fredricks President Paradigma Software http://www.paradigmasoft.com Valentina SQL Server: The Ultra-fast, Royalty Free Database Server _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
