Hello David and everyone again,
Four people is too small.
ThinkSecret is a rumor site, they could have this number or the entire rumor about WebObjects wrong. AppleInsider posted a similar rumor one year ago and nothing happened back then... http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1135 So let's give Apple a change how things will work out. As many people mentioned Xcode will not stop working tomorrow and Apple just stated these applications will run on Leopard. Also WOLips (apparently, see other posters, I don't know...) being used internally at Apple means it's ready to go: If Apple can maintain the iTMS and then most possibly the rumored upcoming movie store with these tools, it should be good enough to get started with them, no :) ?
Also, in the RoR web page, they state RoR will be included in Leopard.
Yes. Don't let this scare you. Apple always included a vast set of working versions of popular open source technologies to OS X (Server) and make them work fine together - after all, that's their advantage over, say, Linux. A few years ago, Apple added PHP, then they added JBoss...all "competitors" of some kind to WebObjects. This didn't mean WO was dead, same for RoR. If a magic tool named NakedJellyBeans comes up, Apple will most likely bundle NJB with 10.6 and so on IMHO.
Open source could be nice, but it is not faster than an enterprise (with money) to develop > and back up a project.
WO open source vs closed source is a heated topic so I won't go there again:) I invite you to join the WebObjects-talk list where this has been discussed extensively some days ago. PS: A kind reader named Fabian sent me the link to that hilarious post. If you laugh hard, you will know you have been here for too long... http://lists.apple.com/archives/Webobjects-dev/2005/May/msg00176.html A parody we should take rumor sites news with a grain of salt, IMHO. Have a nice weekend. Marc _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to archive@mail-archive.com
