On 23 Apr 2006, at 17:26, Ken Anderson wrote:
The only thing that bothers me personally is that I would rather
not have other people reading this list think WO is dying. It
really isn't, and Apple pretty much said so by integrating it into
their standard development platform. By doing that, they're
voicing their support for the long term (in my opinion). It takes
a lot more to kill a part of your development environment than a
standalone product.
And, let's not forget, a very high percentage of Apple sales (iTMS,
AppleStore online and .Mac) is taken through WebObjects applications.
We're in Europe, we use WebObjects. Other junk is too painful to use.
We are running 5.3 on our in-house servers, which means a couple of
applications, and all new test sites. Most of our sites that run
outside are on Apple hardware, and they are on 5.2, because that's
what we last issued maintenance releases under. All of these will
upgrade to 5.3 in time, probably when we next need to issue a
significant upgrade. One major site (running about 20 or so
applications, at a rough guess), is running on some alien operating
system (Windows 2000), we are developing new applications for them on
5.3 and running on 5.2.
One of the points that the OP misses is that applications have a life
cycle, and apps developed 7 years ago will still run; you may or may
not choose to upgrade them to latest releases until and unless
maintenance support becomes an issue. Our oldest site under current
maintenance was developed in 1997 or 1998 (I forget), and the last
major upgrade was in 2002 - and that's on 5.2. The next oldest under
current maintenance by us was started in 1999, upgraded from 4.5 to
5.2 last year, and will probably be on 5.3 sometime later this year.
If all we were doing was creating new applications, then perhaps some
doom laden questions about 5.3 uptake might be considered pertinent;
but that's not what we (all) do.
Paul
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