At 11:31 AM -0800 3/9/99, Jeroen Clarysse wrote:
>I just phoned with a low-level programmer who has written his own webserver
>and stuff. He says that, for $25K, he can write a multithreaded, ultrafast
>UNIX C-app that does all the basic stuff for form-processing, database
>access and page-generation with a nice GUI. (using PowePlant, GUI is easy)
>
>in fact, he tells me that, for this price, any small programmers team can
>write a package that does everything a *lightweight* WebObjects would do.
>With no tpm-limit. "perfect for your small intranet solutions" as he puts
>it : "Handles 100hits per minute like a piece of cake".
>
>
>that summs it up pretty much I think why Apple is losing WebObjects at a
>high rate.
That developer is blowing smoke up your you know what.
$25k is the price of a *good* developer for about 2 or 3 months. It's
unrealistic to expect to get a good, well tested, fully functional, well
documented lightweight WebObjects in that timeframe.
Hell, I spent about 1.5 months on my PowerPerl product which is no where
near WebObjects (it's embedded perl in HTML pages)... and I didn't even get
into developer and user documentation.
If you believe such a developer, as above, then you deserve everything
you'll end up with....
I wouldn't stake my business on it.
mark
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