20 or so years ago, I was at Intel. We kept losing design-ins to inferior technology. My boss assigned me to figure out why and how to fix it. The problem I found was that Motorola was giving engineering students free SDKs in engineering school. They'd graduate, go to their first job, and their boss would ask them what they wanted to use for their project, which was by then already behind schedule. Moto won not because they had better technology but because they ensured that college grads knew their technology.
That sounds like I agree with Judy and Marian. I don't. Because the difference here is two-fold. First, RunRev doesn't have the resources to wait four years for college grads to enter the job market with experience in Revolution. They have to make profits now.
Second, software isn't like integrated circuits. A company buys one tool, not millions of chips. corporate standards always trump individual desires. Companies are not going to standardize on Revolution because some recent college grad shows up with knowledge of it.
In fact, I submit, colleges and universities are not going to adopt Revolution as a teaching language in any significant numbers as long as they can get "industry standard" tools like Java, C#, etc., free, even if RunRev *pays* them to do so.
I think this part of the discussion is being largely driven by people in the education marketplace. And I respect their right to their opinions in the spaces they know. But overall, that market is minuscule and all but insignificant to software development tool companies for a whole host of reasons.
RunRev's a small company. It needs to stick to its knitting and make money\, not gratuitously fund newbies in the hope of some phantom long-term gain.
Let the rants begin.
On Sep 2, 2004, at 10:48 AM, Judy Perry wrote:
Because it's in Rev's best interest that they learn to use *their* product
instead of somebody else's...
Judy
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Dan Shafer wrote:
If they have _no_ skills or background training in software but want to
learn, why should they learn for free?
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