> >> I guess Evergreen finally got them to pull the plug on
> >> WebObjects... It only took 4 years!
> >
> >Disturbing nonetheless -- especially for a high-profile site
> >Apple has been mentioning in WO seminars.
>
> Ya, but this stuff comes and goes.
> For the old sites doing WO and leaving, new sites will become WO to replace
> them.
> Let's not forget, very little stays static on the internet for long.
That's not the real issue. The issue is, that it now appears to
people that Evergreen is VASTLY superior. After all, why would anyone
bother totally reengineering a successful project, with additional
work and new potential problems if not because either
a) the existing solution is very problematic or
b) the new solution is vastly superior
Surely, nothing is static in the web space, but mostly because new and
better stuff comes along all the time. If WO gets replaced, then that
indicates to people (true or not doesn't matter and is not the issue here)
that WO has fallen behind the curve or that there is a dirty secret
with WO that people discover after using it for a while, and when they do,
they try as hard as possible to get off the platform.
In either case, such things are really bad news, particularly since
SharperImage is not the only such case. You can add E*trade and Dell
and probably a few others to that list.
I'm not concerned about WO, but about the message this sends to potential
clients. If they know about it, they will ask questions like: "Why did they
switch? Why shouldn't we just use Evergreen to begin with and learn from
other people's mistakes? etc."
Ronald
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