It has moved forward by making quantum leaps it its technology and a large very active devoted developer community and by focusing equally on Mac and windows but giving its biggest marketing push in the windows world. It is the most popular selling and in use DB in both communities and has been growing every year.
If it was tied to close to apples draw strings I don’t think it would have gotten as far as it has.
That said even without apple it is a much bigger company the WI and therefore has more potential to build a base.
I would love to see them acquire the technology and have it be their own Web based enabling tool.
IDE wise they are a good fit.
Dan
on 5/20/05 12:49, Chris Millet at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Product Positioning�
I like the comparison made earlier between Wi and FileMaker. Both share similar traits in their respective arenas, but FileMaker has the advantage of being able to tap into the marketing and PR know how of it's parent company, Apple.�In a perfect world (or at least my perfect world), Witango would position itself in the void between the overly-cumbersome Lasso and overly-complex WebObjects and ride Apple's ease-of-use coat tails to become noticed by the world and maybe even be bought out by Apple (insert image of Phil and Sophie on their own private beach somewhere with Zinc Oxide smeared noses, coconut drinks in hand, and the sound of seagulls and crashing waves in the background).�Now that Adobe's bought out Macromedia, they are poised to make significant progress in the web arena – something they've been trying desperately to do for years and failing. And with Microsoft already ahead in the game, Apple needs to do something similar to what they did with Final Cut Pro and the iApps. I know Apple may seem like a small player compared to Microsoft and Adobe, but they are still much bigger than Wi – and from what I have experienced regarding database driven web apps and Mac OS X, Apple could use a few pointers from the likes of Phil and crew.
Just my two cents worth.
Chris
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