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Re: [ANN] WebObjects now $699

Author:Paul Snively
Posted:5/16/2000; 7:46:05 AM
Topic:[ANN] WebObjects now $699
Msg #:17338 (In response to 17327)
Prev/Next:17337 / 17339

Dave Winer: ...the old Apple wasn't so inspiring of trust, neither was the old Jobs imho.

I think this is the real news: people used to go on and on about the "Steve Jobs reality-distortion field," and a lot of that, I think, had to do with Steve's stubbornness in the face of information that contradicted his strongly-held opinions. What we're seeing now is a Steve Jobs who's more willing to deal with market realities such as the need for vastly improved price:performance ratios in the Mac line and the need for smaller developers with shallower pockets to get into serious Mac development (MPW for free, WebObjects for a very-not-unreasonable price).

This is excellent news, especially given that WebObjects can now be Java-driven as well as Objective-C-driven.

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