[REBOL] Re: REBOL, Flash and Browsers
From: sunandadh:aol at: 11-Mar-2003 10:16
Joel:
> Not if Microsoft has their way. Latest rumor I'm hearing is that:
[snip]
> IOW, (per this rumor) usoft's pitch is "The browser is dead, and
> Office (tm) is the platform!"
If Office becomes a separate platform for application delivery, then RT will
have to think very hard about migrating to that platform too.
The REBOL "mission statement" reads, in part:
REBOL connects people, not just computers....Our company provides an
operating system independent distributed collaborative platform that empowers
the next generation of Internet communications.
http://www.rebol.com/mission.html
If people are talking Office-to-Office (Or Office-to-browser, or
Office-to-desktop legacy) then REBOL will have to deploy inside Office too.
Petr:
> So - I would like to know what was user's complaint about in regards
> to R3? Just curious :-)
I've done some SAP work too -- mainly trying to migrate some mega-legacy
applications from mainframes to SAP so they could be web deployed. In the
end, we gave up with SAP and went direct. Someone (I forget who) once said
that SAP has only two faults: "it's too expensive and it doesn't work". That
fitted my experience.
SAP attempts to be a complete platform in perhaps the way that Joel reports
Office wants to be. I suspect the failures will be similar.
I've been working on the Library project. We've had to write the application
twice. Once as web-server CGIs (you'll see that at www.rebol.org) and once as
a stand-alone REBOL application (soon to be released, I hope). There is a lot
of common code between the two (much of the indexing and search function is
common; and 'layouts are massaged into html) but it is still two separate
applications.
That's not nearly as bad as if we then had to port the REBOL application to
39 different operating environments, but it does point up a flaw in REBOL's
mission to be a "distributed collaborative platform".
Sunanda.
