Hi, I'm a long time mac fan programming on win95 PC's all day using the Microsoft foundation classes. I've been dying to get back to mac programming, and finally Im getting my chance : WebObjects might be of interest for one of our clients. But there are some questions left unanswered by the faq : (apple officials here in belgium refuse to comment. Wait and see is their dogma. I can't wait : if I have to wait, it will become yet another WinNT/oracle box) - Webobjects will ship as a bundle with the upcoming MacOS X serves, right ? - New Mac G3 server machines are planned to be avaiable around march (I'm talking europe here!), right ? - these machines are rumored to cost approx $5000, which includes both the above packages. Is that true ? - this includes a 50 tpm (transactions per minute) webobject license. What exactly is a transaction ? Is each generated webpage a transaction ? or only compiled code exectutions ? or client connections ? - how useable is a 50tpm license anyway ? Does an average WebObjects server generate 10, 100 or 1000ands of transactions ? - what is the cost of upgrading such a server configuration to a 100tpm (or whatever is considered a decent tpm amount) ? - WebObjects can connect to all the big database systems like oracle, informix, etc. But are there any low cost yet reasonably performant database applications that also do the job ? For a ffirst prooject, I don't think we can afoord another few $10.000s for an oracle license. My first thought is : does filemaker work ? or anything filemaker like (userfriendly, easy and still speedy enough for simple, non relational databases with max 10.000 records) I really hope I can dig myself into this new stuff. I've been writing Windows applications for far too long now. thanks a zillion in advance ! jeroen
