Comments on: Apple to drop WebObjects in Snow Leopard Server http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/07/07/apple-to-drop-webobjects-in-snow-leopard-server/ Daniel Eran Dilger in San Francisco Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:51:09 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: wordwarrior http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/07/07/apple-to-drop-webobjects-in-snow-leopard-server/comment-page-1/#comment-19245 wordwarrior Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:10:36 +0000 http://www.roughlydrafted.com/?p=3602#comment-19245 Apple is almost as likely to drop WebObjects as it is to fire Steve Jobs. It's extremely scalable as it powers the iTunes Store, the Apple Store, and the App Store. There's no way any company drops a technology that's widely deployed and used in production unless there's a serious business case for doing so. Otherwise, they'll have the same sort of embarrassment Microsoft faced when it first tried to migrate hotmail from FreeBSD to Windows Server. Besides, SproutCore is not a complete solution as WebObjects is. It's a client-side JavaScript framework. What technology does Apple use on the server-side for this framework? Whatever it is, it had better be battle-tested as WebObjects is, or it's not going to supplant WebObjects anytime soon. Apple is almost as likely to drop WebObjects as it is to fire Steve Jobs. It’s extremely scalable as it powers the iTunes Store, the Apple Store, and the App Store. There’s no way any company drops a technology that’s widely deployed and used in production unless there’s a serious business case for doing so. Otherwise, they’ll have the same sort of embarrassment Microsoft faced when it first tried to migrate hotmail from FreeBSD to Windows Server.

Besides, SproutCore is not a complete solution as WebObjects is. It’s a client-side JavaScript framework. What technology does Apple use on the server-side for this framework? Whatever it is, it had better be battle-tested as WebObjects is, or it’s not going to supplant WebObjects anytime soon.

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]]> By: peter.s http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/07/07/apple-to-drop-webobjects-in-snow-leopard-server/comment-page-1/#comment-19187 peter.s Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:42:52 +0000 http://www.roughlydrafted.com/?p=3602#comment-19187 I have a feeling, that Apple will drop webobject for SproutCore built right into the next XCode 4.0. Imagine Apples online sites iTunesStore / AppStore / AppleStore / MobileMe as javascript / html 5 based cloud applications. This would speed up interactivity 10 times at least. SproutCore 1.0 mirrors Cocoa frameworks in javascript so if Apple connect this two frameworks together, they have one integrated developing environement where you can build native OS X / iPhone OS or so called Cloud or WebClient applications. [SproutCore is most useful in creating nice interfaces, while WebObjects' primary strength is working with back end databases. I believe MobileMe uses both together for that purpose. -Dan ] I have a feeling, that Apple will drop webobject for SproutCore built right into the next XCode 4.0. Imagine Apples online sites iTunesStore / AppStore / AppleStore / MobileMe as javascript / html 5 based cloud applications. This would speed up interactivity 10 times at least.
SproutCore 1.0 mirrors Cocoa frameworks in javascript so if Apple connect this two frameworks together, they have one integrated developing environement where you can build native OS X / iPhone OS or so called Cloud or WebClient applications.

[SproutCore is most useful in creating nice interfaces, while WebObjects' primary strength is working with back end databases. I believe MobileMe uses both together for that purpose. -Dan ]

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