I asked: "How are you going to sell xtalks in a corporate environment where reliability and correctness is _more important than programmer productivity_ ?"
Alex,
You're probably not; so those corporate environments, which never have & never will embrace cutting-edge technology until it is passe and replaced by new technology, will not be good target market places for Revolution for at least a decade..
How do you respond when a business owner or corporate executive tells you proudly about the great deal he/she got from IBM on a System 36 four years after it was discontinued in favor of the AS/400? As I said in a previous post, in my experience these types make unsatisfactory (and often unsatisfied) clients.
Anyone with a HyperCard legacy knows the story of the aviation company (North American?) with an HC application providing online schematics of all jet airliner parts to both the workers assembling the planes & the mechanics maintaining them. At the time of the IHUG effort to keep Apple from pulling the plug on HyperCard, I contacted someone involved in the project and asked if the corporate CEO wouldn't like to contact Steve Jobs on HyperCard's behalf. His response was:
"Top management hates HyperCard, because our application is the reason they cannot phase out all Apple computers. Three times they have attempted to rewrite our system in Windows, and three times they have given up after pouring lots of money into the project without ever getting close to duplicating the HyperCard application's functionality." [Amazing for a "beginner-ish" language, eh Frank. :{`) ]
You are quite welcome to deal with corporate idiots such as these, Alex, but let's not drag Transcript down to curry favor with no-nothings.
And, by the way, reliability is not an issue from my perspective. How long has the underlying MetaCard engine been on the market?
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