Re: Would you recommend PowerObjects?
Date: 1998/02/18
Message-ID: <6cdrb9$3nh$1_at_wyrm.its.uow.edu.au>#1/1
In article <34E9E3BA.2781_at_mpimg-berlin-dahlem.mpg.de> Markus Kramer, kramer_at_mpimg-berlin-dahlem.mpg.de writes:
>Would you recommend PowerObjects?
Not strongly.
>Why not?
Oracle don't appear to be committed to it. This is a real pity, as it had tremendous potential when it was first released, but they blew the product's credibility with three very buggy releases. (You'd think that a compnay that spends hundreds of millions on software development every year would be able to get a fairly small development environment right, wouldn't you?)
I really like OPO. It's compact, it's elegant, it's vastly more logical than Dev 2K, and you can roll up an application in very little time. It still has a fair sprinkling of bugs and limitations, but they haven't stopped me from writing a solid application with it.
That said, it's just not sensible to commit any new work to it.
>What instead?
Dev 2K is probably the likeliest candidate.
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Received on Wed Feb 18 1998 - 00:00:00 CET