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very much aligned with Bezos thoughts on project management, business models, hiring, and more
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learned of his departure from IBM via Twitter, and his landing at Google via his blog; in any event, Google got themselves a very impressive technologist
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“Less is more – particularly when it comes to preso’s. As an example, James Governor’s (from Redmonk) session was minimalistic – some slides had one word on them – but stayed with me.” – props for James’ Eclipse talk – excellent
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been thinking about this issue a bit following chats with the RedMonkers that attended Adobe’s last show, and i think Michael’s correct here – they will increasingly be at odds
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Dave’s right: there’s little doubt in my mind that open source telephony is increasingly a force to be reckoned with – the “not ready for the enterprise” bit obscures the importance. MySQL is, according to conv. wisdom, “not ready for the enterprise”
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lots of folks have linked to this already: like the career advice
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“I usually defend the Sox when they’re accused to trying to soak every last penny from their franchise…But this feels like one toke over the line. And it feels remarkably stupid as well.” – +1
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Andrew Shebanow says:
March 21, 2007 at 10:36 am
I’m a big fan of Eclipse, and Adobe likes it a lot too (see FlexBuilder 2). But the RCP is not and will never be an Apollo competitor.
Here’s why:
* RCP is about building a portable platform for traditional desktop applications using traditional desktop GUI frameworks. SWT, etc. Apollo is about bringing web development techniques and tools to the desktop.
* RCP is heavyweight. The base framework installer is 6.6MB, NOT INCLUDING THE JRE. You want an update mechanism with that, or an HTML rendering engine? Those aren’t included in the 6.6MB. (To be fair, that 6.6MB does include a lot of functionality that Apollo doesn’t even try to address.)
* There is no ubiquity story for RCP. How will they ever get to the point where its runtime has an installed base measured in the tens or hundreds of millions?
Don’t get me wrong. I think the RCP is a pretty darn decent platform and that anyone who is looking to build traditional desktop apps in a portable way should take a good hard look at it. But an Apollo competitor it ain’t.