<You are too convinced that if something makes money, it must be a good product. I'm too convinced that if it's a good product it should make money.>
Look at history, OS/2 was a superior product, Geoworks Ensemble was a superior product, the Macintosh was a superior product. What do they all have in common? MSFT took them all out with inferior, but incrementally improving products. The world is not a cmputer lab, it is a capitalistic environ whre business acumen rules.
<I just can't believe I would say that I thought they were code generators, and you would come back and say no, they are code generators. Then you say you haven't made my point? I guess I just don't get it.>
They are not just code generators, they are fully functional apllications (possibly the most functional on the market). You said they were not fully functional apps, just GUI builders and code generators. They are also a repository of fully functional templates.
<That being said, I would still maintain that the number of applications that runs under Unix is comparable to the number of applications that runs under Wintel. Not much either of us can do to prove it, but there it is, based on my experience and opinion.>
This can be proven if you put the effort in. But using common sense, who moves more units, Wintel or Unix? Chances are the one that does the most volume, and has the most commercial development tools, will have the msot commercial apps. |
