Re: Development of Oracle Power Objects for OS/2 stopped!!! E-Mail Campaign!!!
Date: 1996/03/28
Message-ID: <4jddej$1gi8_at_saba.info.ucla.edu>#1/1
In <3158769f.3747203_at_nntp.peg.apc.org>, gordonh_at_acslink.net.au (Gordon E. Hooker) writes:
>Hi,
>
>I suppose everyone is entitled to an opinion about these things, mine being - if
>I were spending R&D $'s I would be spending it on products that have a large
>market share. If Oracle don't think OS/2 has a large enough market share to
>spend OPO R&D $'s on a port at this point in time, then I would have second
>thoughts about developing on OS/2.
>
OK, but the OS/2 market rivals the Mac market in size, and is probably growing
more quickly. So why is Oracle choosing to make OPO for Mac but not OPO for
OS/2? This makes no sense to me, especially given the strength of OS/2's SOM --
seems like aperfect match for the OPO object-oriented model.
Benjamin Braun