Humm... do you really know what you are talking about? I think you are just expressing what people whose interest is money thinks. Quiet franckly not everyone is money driven. Life show me that there is no such things as one size fits all. I think your comments do have so truth in it but are not relevant to the current failure of Ariane. If you are a little bit involved in any space related programs (I am am involved with several NASA projects) you will learn that even though we have done a lot of progress in this area since the program started, we are still like infants experimenting. It is true for both the US and Europe and any failure should remind us how much will still have accomplish and how much we already did accomplish.
Gobe Productive is a very elegant and potent product. And the Gobe team seemed to be a very nice group of people (I exchanged emails with some of them). I used Productive on both BeOS and MS-Windows and it is a great job while being fast and very compact. The next version could have added functionalities like support for XML file format that could have really brought it the point that it meets the needs of 80% of the users.
It is unfortunate that this product is going to disappear. Well, it shows once again that the impact of Microsoft behavior does not lead to more innovation (like Productive) and more choices for the consumers but to their alienation (and I am not arguing about MS-Office value but who really needs all its functionalities?).
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Humm... do you really know what you are talking about? I think you are just expressing what people whose interest is money thinks. Quiet franckly not everyone is money driven. Life show me that there is no such things as one size fits all. I think your comments do have so truth in it but are not relevant to the current failure of Ariane. If you are a little bit involved in any space related programs (I am am involved with several NASA projects) you will learn that even though we have done a lot of progress in this area since the program started, we are still like infants experimenting. It is true for both the US and Europe and any failure should remind us how much will still have accomplish and how much we already did accomplish.
Gobe Productive is a very elegant and potent product. And the Gobe team seemed to be a very nice group of people (I exchanged emails with some of them). I used Productive on both BeOS and MS-Windows and it is a great job while being fast and very compact. The next version could have added functionalities like support for XML file format that could have really brought it the point that it meets the needs of 80% of the users. It is unfortunate that this product is going to disappear. Well, it shows once again that the impact of Microsoft behavior does not lead to more innovation (like Productive) and more choices for the consumers but to their alienation (and I am not arguing about MS-Office value but who really needs all its functionalities?).