Thanks, Phil for the update on Witango, the best web IDE on the market. Mikal Anderson
----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Wade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 21:43 Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: State of the Union address > Hi all. > For those that do not read my essays - Witango Technologies remains > profitable and is currently working on version 6 of the Dev Studio, > Server and J2EE Framework which will be released in the future (no > dates set yet). > > > <ESSAY> > > Many years ago when my life was simple and I was in primary school my > School moto was "Truth Above All". It sort of stuck with me over the > years and I try to live to it the best I can. The moto however > regularly comes back to bite me in the ass as many people do not > handle the truth all that well and to some people the truth just > scares the hell out of them. It is always interesting to see how > people react to the cold hard truth but I think it is worth taking > the risk to publicly let you know where we are today. That being > said, I will not be turning this topic into or participating in an > open public forum on Witango Technologies Pty Ltd or Witango > technology and its future features. So do not try to read between > the lines of the email - it simply is what it is, where we are today. > > So here is the naked truth ... > > Witango Technologies is a niche web middleware provider and as many > of you know is not your typical US tech company operating by burning > venture capital (aka MySQL and PHP) to build a brand that can some > day be floated on a stock market to make it's investors rich or a > multi billion dollar merger like Adobe/Macromedia. Witango > Technologies is an independent software developer run like any > profitable business should be - profitably. > > We have watched the .com boom come and because we had good management > and business practices we saw it go, along with many of our > competitors who didn't. I have an article I keep in my desk to > remind me that we are a business foremost which happens to build > software. The 1998 article featured With Imagination (now Witango > Technologies) and 5 other busineses that were amongst the premier Web > Developers in Australia at the time based on clients and the size and > complexity of the systems we built. We were the only private company > not running with venture capital and amazingly we are the only one > still in business. > > We believe that stability and longevity is important to a customer > when choosing a service or product regardless of whether it is > software or some other product. Customers like to know that whatever > they choose will be available to them for the long term. Witango > Technologies has been in business for over 13 years and is planning > on being in business for many more years to come. We continues to > power along thanks to the support of all of you and we continue to > grow with a steady stream of sales from both current and new > customers. It was 4 years on June 30 2005 that we purchased T2K with > all its warts, illnesses and cooperatively threaded secrets from > Pervasive (I think we are approaching the time when WT will have > owned the technology as long as Everyware had it) and it has at times > been a bumpy ride but it is calmer waters ahead and smooth sailing > from here. > > With 5.0 and 5.5 we added the most commonly requested features, > updated to the latest standards and rewrote all the subsystems, > plumbing and engine that runs Witango. One of our early milestones > was the eradication of Server Watcher (T2K's perceived stability) > which we have aspired to replace with actual server stability. I am > not saying the server is perfect, but as those that send us their > stack traces can verify, we prioritise fixing crashes above all other > bugs, stability is priority #1. A few of the subsystems that have > been rewritten and replaced are the datasource pooling, ODBC > interface, caching, SQL generator, XML parser, XML tags, tag > processor, encoding subsystems, etc. In the server we have also > removed all dependancies on external libraries that are not open > source and we now have a single common code base across all > platforms. All this has been in preparation for version 6 which we > are currently working on and will be released in the future at the > next Dev Conference (no dates set yet so please do not ask). We now > have a solid foundation for the server to build upon. > > The new Server 6 and J2EE Framework 6 will have many new features > including a lot more actions and it will be based on unicode instead > of assuming Latin-1 is the charset of the OS it runs on. The new > server will have new actions for Web Services, Reading Mail, > Directory Manipulation, LDAP and TCFs have been enhanced to allow > multiple classes per TCF as well as private TCFs that expose only the > method interface and not the logic within them. The builder actions > have also been merged and enhanced. It is not too late to ask for > features so if you have an idea for a new action or tag let us know - > log into the developer site, go to the Utilities and log a new feature. > > We are nearing the completion of a total rewrite of the Dev Studios > for version 6 and has many new interface enhancements. We have > rewritten Dev Studio 6 in Java using JRE 5.0 so we can have a common > code base for all platforms. I hear screams from the .Net/CLI Neo- > Luddites but Java, now that Sun and MS have kissed and made up, > allows us to have the Dev Studio running on OS X, Windows, Linux and > Solaris without the risks or limitations that came with the Mono > Project or other 3rd Party libraries or tools. Any OS that has a JRE > 5.0 will be able to run the Dev Studio. > > The Dev Studios up to 5.5 has dependencies on libraries and > frameworks dating back to 1997 and on OS X they are even older so the > current Dev Studio code has been retired and we are fast tracking the > development of DS 6 to overcome some issues in the 5.x code that we > cannot work around. It is no longer possible to support the current > Dev Studios (OS X and Windows) with the current code base as the 3rd > Party libraries that they depended on are no longer supported and as > operating systems have been upgraded they have become less stable and > unfixable. > > > > Finally and because you asked, other projects I have been involved in > recently include KidTechnic.com (the next generation of engineers) > and the soon to be launched motorcycleparking.com.au. There are a > few others but they are still in the secret/concept stage. > > </ESSAY> > > > I hope this answers your questions. > > > Regards > > Phil > > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.361 / Virus Database: 267.12.4/146 - Release Date: 10/21/2005 > > ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
