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- From: ernest@pundit.cithep.caltech.edu (Ernest Prabhakar)
- Subject: Object Marketing (WAS: BackSpace/NextWorld)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.211013.27280@cco.caltech.edu>
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- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 21:10:13 GMT
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- In article <BtnM05.8L5@spock.dis.cccd.edu> maurices@spock.dis.cccd.edu (Maurice
- Shihadi) writes:
- > The reason I bought a NeXT was so I could hire a couple of C programmers
- > and guide their efforts toward writing encapsulated Object Code,
- > sell the use of the Object Code in addition to selling SUPPORT to
- > those who need more guidance in putting together their own custom apps.
- > Service is where the competition should lie.
- [WordPerfect flame deleted]
- > ...but alas, this probably
- > won't happen until everyone else goes RISC and Object Oriented programming
- > becomes more of a reality than a marketing catch phrase. In addition,
- > "developers" that spend their spare momemts creating objects could solicit
- > companies to act as publishers to distribute and could either sell their
- > object code outright or seek some kind of royalty payment.
-
- This is precisely what Brad Cox (author of ObjC) was talking about at
- ObjectWorld. He used the phrase "turning programming from a technical matter
- between a programmer and the computer to a commercial matter between producers
- and consumers." He said that doing this would require a revolution in the way
- software was sold, created, and conceived. Immediately thereafter, Sun and
- Microsoft made very strong point that their use of Objects was 'evolutionary',
- NOT revolutionary. Steve and the guy from Taligent were the only ones to buy
- into the 'revolutionary' jargon.
-
- That is why the ObjectWare catalog, despite having a marketeering feel to it,
- is such a landmark event. NeXT claim credibly claim to have created an 'Object
- Marketplace' - the first of its kind, as far as I can tell. ArcheType is
- probably the biggest company to have bought this philosophy, though many
- smaller ones have. They have a few objects which they market, and a couple of
- 'toy' (in the sense of minimal additional effort) applications which
- demonstrate their use.
-
- Brad Cox did make the point that a whole new payment scheme (analogous to
- ASCAP, as someone pointed out) would really need to come about before the
- object market could really flourish. Conventional pricing schemes are too
- 'heavyweight' to deal with something as ephemeral as objects, although they
- will suffice for the transition. Any of you bring NeXT-ophilic Econ majors
- want to become the next ASCAP by engineering the worlds first floating object
- market?!?
-
- - Ernie 'rapturous object frenzy' Prabhakar
- --
- Ernest N. Prabhakar Caltech High Energy Physics
- Member, League for Programming Freedom (league@prep.ai.mit.edu)
- CaJUN President NeXTMail:ernest@pundit.cithep.caltech.edu
- "...and ourselves, your servants for Jesus sake." - II Cor 4:5b
- #import <std/disclaimer.h>
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