On Jun 6, 2005, at 10:22 AM, John Ridge wrote:
>
> BBC News reports "Technology news site The Register also reports
> that Apple has licensed technology from a company called
> Transitive which makes software that makes it easier to port
> programs on to different chip architectures"
>
> If the current rumours are correct, is Revolution stymied? If,
> by magic, apps developed on any platform can be run without
> change on any other, what need is there for cross-platform
> tools like Rev?
>
> Still a fascinating IDE, but it's lost a major selling point.....
Hardly. This hurts Microsoft and their VirtualPC more than anyone else.
For those of us who design multi-platform applications this technology
would seem to have little if any impact: emulating a chip architecture
is one thing, emulating an OS quite another.
And even if it could emulate the OS (oh the copyright issues there) do
Mac users really want Win-designed apps, or Win users want Mac-designed
apps?
There's a lot more to multi-platform design and development than
microchip instruction sets.....
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Media Corporation
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