Re: Power Objects - Is there a market?

wrong again. cross platform under both OMO and OPO are not diminished one over the other. they go between nicely, of course there are difference in that you cant use OLE on the mac side, and you cant use toolbox on the pc side, but those are addons anyway. in the mainline products, when the company does it right, there is no reason cross-platform must equal diminished response.

also, cross platform enables the customer, us, to have a lot more freedom when choosing a platform for a given need. today, many pc shops must suffer if they cant fit a mac into their toolset cause they cant get a cross capability, and the revers is certainly true.

the more cross we get, the better it is for ALL of us. as i said, if your world revolves around a single machine, and a single set of tools, you wont see this point.

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In article <4a0198$5qn_at_ns2.ptd.net>, mtaylor_at_postoffice.ptd.net (Michael
Taylor) wrote:



> Ah well, flame away.  The market is changing...

> This is why I try so hard when responding to 

> notes requesting an OPINION with the phrase

> "In my opinion" and I tend to avoid direct

> "weenie" references, but I digress...

> 

> To add to my OPINION: IF your organization has some

> dire need to front-end its products with Mac,

> Motif, X-windows (did I offend anyone through 

> omission??), you need a cross-platform tool.

> That is not the case in my organization or in

> any organization in which I have worked in the

> past.  Cross-platform tools also have to work

> to the least-common denominator of their

> supported platforms.

> 

> Thank-you all the same for your thought-provoking

> response.

> 

>  - Mike

> 

> In article <49tib4$ol_at_angler.wni.com>, dianab says...

> >

> >note how the pc weenies have the narrowed view which

> >makes them look foolish when trying to understand the

> >real world outside their tinylittle universes.

> >

> >cross-platform lets tools be used in corporate where

> >the split is about 70/30, if you dont have them, you

> >cant sell into a lot of desktops in corporate.

> >

> >vb is ok, but OPO just passed it up, onthe first run

> >out of the barn!  wait till it gets released, whew...

> >

> >delphi is a joke, noone wants to code in pascal, least of

> >all use a tool from a company that has been beaten to the

> >ground by microsoft, and isnt long for the world.

> >

> >powerbuilder was killed the day it became a sybase product.


> >